Ingin mengukur seberapa kuat password yang anda gunakan? Ada sebuah situs yang menyediakan hal tersebut yang beralamat http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php. Iseng-iseng gue masukin password yang biasa saya gunakan, kaget juga yang melihat hasilnya. Ternyata password yang selama ini saya gunakan masih lemah. emoticon Berikut sekrinsut hasil dari password gue.

Dari situs itu juga diberikan sebuah saran untuk membuat password itu menjadi kuat. Kalau anda ingin mengikuti saran tersebut, inilah sarannya :

SUGGESTIONS

Common suggestions for constructing seemingly random passwords are:

  1. Use the first letter of each word from a line in a book, song, or poem. For example: "Who ya gonna call? Ghost Busters!" would  produce "Wygc?GB!”
  2. Use the output from a random password generator. Select a random string that can be pronounced and is easy to remember. For example, the random string "adazac123" can be pronounced a-da-zac, and you can remember it by thinking of it as "A-to-Z,1 through 3." Add uppercase letters to create your own emphasis, e.g., aDAzac.2
  3. Use two short words connected by punctuation, e.g., T1me#0ff
  4. Use numbers and letters to create an imaginary vanity license plate password, e.g., 1H8work!

A common theme of these suggestions is that the password should be easy to remember. Avoid passwords that must be written down to be remembered. If unrecallable, someone in your office may find the password you have written down, and compromise your network identity.

These guidelines and suggestions should enable you to choose strong passwords that will help you improve the security of your system.