I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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Also, another method is to use a book of poetry or song lyrics and pick words on specific pages and build unrelated word combinations with mixed-case, number substitution and special characters.
Another, tool I use is KeePass since it works on Linux, Mac, Windows and several different smart phones, the file is encrypted and requires either or both a pass phrase and key file to access.
My roommate is a IT Sys Admin and so has the house wifi locked down with 11 alpha-numeric characters, various capitals and something neither of us can ever remember without checking where it's written down.
When I worked in a secure facility we used a telephone keypad to write out a word or two.
What really annoys me is the websites, software services, that require a password recovery question as though anyone who wanted to break into our online information couldn't do some research and learn out mother's maiden name, our pet's name or the first street we lived on as a child.