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Three things make a good password:

1. It is hard for someone else to guess.

2. It is easy for you to remember. 

3. It is not reused on some other website.

The point of a password is so other people can't guess it. It needs to be secret and difficult to guess. If you tell your password to someone else, or if it's so easy to guess your colleague, client or grandmother can guess it, you might as well not have one!

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The best, and simplest way to make an impossible password is have the computer generate one for you, and the computer remember it for you.

1. Generate a new, totally random, unique password like 3497zVp63v4IC.

2. Store it securely in the password manager.

3. When you log into Wise Owl Legal, the password manager will automatically copy the password (and even your username too) to your web browser for you.

In a sense, we are "cheating" when remembering the password. But computers remember things really well, so why not get them to do it for you? You may never even see the password it generates, but that's not a bad thing anyway.

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Here's a possible way to make a password:

1. Choose two words at random. Eg: logic and eraser.

2. Mix the words up, so they don't appear in their original forms. Feel free to drop a few letters or add new ones in to make it easier to remember. Eg: er-log-er-ic-as (hyphens added for clarity).

3. Take the serial number from your computer (or phone, etc). Eg: 000413247B09

4. Grab a few numbers from serial and add them into your new word. Eg: er4-log1-er3-ic2-as4 (hyphens added for clarity).

5. Drop one of the parts for a final password: log1er3ic2as4 

Even better than a password is a passphrase. Although they tend to be longer to type, a passphrase can be as secure as 3497zVp63v4IC but much more memorable. Eg: correct horse battery staple (taken from XKCD).

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