This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Once upon a time, we protected our valuables physically. When our beloved Shmupi gave us a set of platinum pillowcases, remarkably impractical, but it's the thought that counts.

We would fold them carefully and put them in a safe

deposit box. It required two keys, ours, and the bank managers, in order to open it. And you know what?

As safe things go, we would make things pretty darn safe. Now, though, much of our lives are

electronic. We talk to our banks, our brokerages, our social media accounts all through the

internet. Heck, some of us even our social media accounts all through the internet.

Heck, some of us even have money that's nothing but electronic bits.

The electronic equivalent of that two-part lock is our password.

And compared to the physical locks, our passwords are very insecure indeed.

Now, since I'm something of a security geek, join me to explore password best practices.

Now, I'm not going to try to explain the rationale behind these tips.

If you're interested, you can read up on computer security on your own.

Today, we're just going to make a to do list of things you can do to be more secure.

First, use strong passwords.

Strong passwords are passwords that are hard to guess.

The ideal is to use a long stream of random characters like, um,

N, A, period, G, capital H, K, D, V, K, V, 8, N, 9,2, H, lowercase, I, capital, C, J, Z, lowercase, A, capital,

M, lowercase, U, capital, G capital G 7d ampersand n6. I'm sure you

were thinking of the same one and you want to choose a password that's at least 23 or 24 characters

long. Some security experts also recommend using the first letter of each word of a memorable

sentence with some sort of punctuation added. So

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