Simple way to create very strong password though easy to remember using What3words

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Introduction to online security

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When it comes to online security we all experience difficulties in creating a very strong password that we alone can remember, at least for once we've had hard time thinking of that unique password. This can only be justified by those who believe that choosing simple password during their online registration for the purpose of remembering it easily or choosing same password in most of their registrations is risky and can be easily compromise by hackers.

They're quite lots of Apps that helps in storing and securing our passwords such as Google 2FA and the likes which according to many aren't 100% safe/secure even so, not every site that supports 2FA and as per, this made me to embark on a research about tightening my security online and I've gotten this tool which I'll be revealing to you the methods involved in a jiffy in a jiffy

Creating strong password using What3words

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I surmised this could sound weird to many as in, what does What3words has to do with strong password, how possible is that? Really confused but let's keep going.

About What3words

• √What3words is such a familiar website to many of us especially steemians as majority of uses it on a daily in their Steemit post . For those who don't, it's simply a location finder website which identifies any location of an area with just 3 words.

• √The website is so handy that it every 9.8ft (3 metres ) has its own address which makes it even better to navigate. The 3 dictionary words assigned to every location permanent.
  For example the words "mimics.uses.melts" are What3words address of Holy priesthood international school

^{Screenshot of What3words map indicating Holy priesthood international school, Ada George Port Harcourt Nigeria}

How to create a strong password using What3words

Even though what3words is not a password replacement tool rather a location website that gives precise location of a place compare to Google map still it can be used in setting a strong password only for those whose technical eyes are so wide open, it can be done using this method;

Y'all can agree with me that it's easier to remember words than letters when it comes to setting a password.
And as per, you can consider setting a password of example, your work app or website registration using your office What3words address in this way, you can't forget and anytime you do, you can type the same name of your office address on What3words and 3 permanent words assigned to that area will display therefore revealing your password.

One of the many mistakes people makes whenbit comes to setting password is repeating dame password on multiple registrations and this is very wrong and cn be easily breached.

How to strengthen your password using What3words

And if you think bybjust setting a password with What3words is risky anyway which of course is not really easy to crack cus even if anyone thinks you're using What3words address for password they'll still not know the particular location and which of your account.

Nonetheless, you can apply another

method, consider changing What3words language, yes! Yours is English for example, while trying to use What3words address as password, you can smartly change the website language before searching for the address which you want to use as password. In this way, the 3 assigned words will be new to you and possibly the hacker, just don't forget the address you searched for .

More on strengthening, you can use the What3words address in reverse order or maybe add some punctuation marks

Conclusion

How about personalizing as in, using some words exactly arranged as though real What3words address but not? This should be the point, you can think of any 3 words that'll be easy to remember then arranged like that of What3words address and set as your password while including punctuations.

Utilize this tool the best way you can, be smart enough, my advise. Visit the What3words and explore more, you can ask me more about this in the comment section also.

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@steem4nigeria.

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