I was really was not surprised the other day when a client contacted me and asked me to reset his password to “something easy to remember” as the one I had created for him was a bit difficult. (I set him a password with 7 characters starting with 3 alphabet characters and 4 numbers on the end…this is a reasonably random and difficult password to guess)
I tried to explain that this is the whole point of complicated passwords is so that they cant easily be guessed and in the end he did get the point but BOY its amazing that people will still use easy to guess passwords.
So I looked around at some way to give people an idea of how to understand if their password is strong enough or not.
Below is a diagram from the nice people at cxo.eu.com which I think goes a long way to explain in visual terms how strong your passwords are.
making sure your password is strong can go a long way to protecting you from identity theft or worse