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Choosing a long password gives you increased security. Long passwords are harder to hack, and enabling your long password allows you to to two factor logins, where you only need your cell phone to log in wherever required.

However, if you lose your cell phone, the long password gives you a means to regain access to your account, where you can disable cell phone two factor access, and where you can change your cell phone number.

Choosing a long password is relatively easy. you could, for example, string together four or five different teachers names. The trick is that you must remember what you picked.

For example, I strung together four schools I attended and got lincolnwashingtonlocustgrovesavannahdesign as a long password.

For me, that is easy to remember. You could capitalize and add spaces, that makes the long password more complicated, and the complexity gives your account a higher level of security.

Suggestions:

Phrase from obscure song
Phrase from a lesser known prayer
Phrase in French or German, if you know that well
Phrase from a quotation, especially if you start in the middle

Some websites ask you to create a strong password, but limit password length to 12 or 16 characters. We will ignore that, this discussion is about creating a strong password that your can remember long enough to get your browser to remember, at which time we all tend to forget it.

Modern websites allow passwords of 64 or mare characters, and there is a good way to take advantage of that. One way is to associate a different song to every important website you use.

The example we use at WRbil.com is Stefani’s Sweet Escape – where we use the password;

sourmilkonthefloor shut the refrigerator

You would just have to remember that WRbil.com is your woohoo yeehoo website and this phrase and the spacing and you have a very strong password.

You could vary the password with capital letters, or shorten the password and put your childhood phone number in the middle. The trick is to associate a different song and key lyric, one song for the bank, another for Facebook and another song for your email.

Use your cell phone camera

Another approach would be to use the website
https://passwordsgenerator.net/ and take a picture of the password with your cell phone. Assuming your cell phone has fingerprint or face id, that is a secure way of storing passwords. Depending on user permissions you can use strong-16 or strong-40 to generate a working password.