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Old 02-03-2011, 04:00 PM   #22
kermitology
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Originally Posted by BlackEleven View Post
I create unique passwords for every site by having a base password and then I modify it base on a simple algorithm derived from the URL. Password managers are useful, but if you don't have access to one for one reason or another this trick works pretty well.

For an example, take the base password passw0rd and the site gmail.com, and use an algorithm that replaces the first letter and last letter of the password with the first and last letter of the URL and you end up with gassw0rl. It's an easy way to have a unique password to a site that doesn't require a ton of memorization.
So does that mean that your password for for CP is cassw0rk?
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