How Strong is YOUR Password?

I just picked up my new laptop today...computers never crash at a convenient time and I beat this one by about a week or two at best.  At least I won this time!  Nonetheless, I spent money I should have spent on Christmas, but the work must go on!  At any rate, the reason I'm talking about passwords is that I spent about 3 hours with the techs that set up this machine.  They told me about a site that can calculate how secure your password is and how long it would take a cyber thief to get into your files, your private data, your bank accounts!!

Click on How Secure is My Password? enter your password or passwords and find out!

The password I use most frequently has symbols, upper and lower case letters and numbers.  It's 16 characters long.  How Secure is My Password? tells me that it would take today's technology with automated password calculators a ridiculous number of years to get it right!!

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