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Diceware Helps Email Users Come Up With Strong Passwords

Having a hacker access your email account is a nightmare. Yet it can be a pain to create very long passwords that are hard to remember. Enter Diceware, a free online program that helps you develop a string of words as your password. The tool includes thousands of words and allows you to roll the dice to come up with a sequence. From here, you can customize the passphrase in order to make it your own. The goal is to have a long solid password that is easy for you to remember without resorting to using your pet's name or your Dad's birthday.

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