P.S. I made her find the damn authenticator! ;)

I absolutely agree that we should all be careful about the sites we visit, though.

on my old computer, I got hit by a keylogger built into a sphere like addon for mages, which i didn’t even really like.

Regardless of the measures one takes to protect themselves, a sufficiently determined attacker will eventually succeed. The purpose of authenticators, and hard passwords is to keep the script kiddies busy longer than their safety threshold. If they know they have to hack multiple systems, the lazier ones will move on to a less protected system.

The only time I got hacked was when I had to play in a cyber coffee waiting for my internet to work at home ^^

Go take an alphanumeric string thats around you and use it.
computer serial numbers, rarely guessable, almost always alphanumeric.
Car number plates, Use a pair of old ones together, already memorised
Use every second letter of the title of a book on your shelf.

There are no limits on it, and most of them you can look at your shelf, or the back of your desk, and check it :)

So a simple example would be: WoW has taken over my life and I will never be free!

Take that phrase and pull out words and first characters: WoWhtomlaiwnbf! (Uses WoW and the first character of each word plus the punctuation. For short phrases you can use all the words – see examples below.).

Then take that series of characters and do some simple substitutions (btw, substitution should NEVER be used on dictionary words alone, password crackers use it too! A random phrase like above is pretty safe though.)

So for this example I am using the following (simple) substitions, feel free to create ones that you will remember.
o=0 (zero)
i=1
a=@

I always suggest using the same ones for all your passwords, so if you substitute the > (greater than) for a g in a password try to do it in all of your passwords so it is easier to remember. Keep in mind as stated in the article that some systems will have restrictions so be prepared with alternatives.

So now our easy to remember phrase becomes: W0Wht0ml@1wnbf!

That is a password any security staff would be proud of and all you have to remember is your phrase and substitutions. Always try to include one upper case character and one punctuation and you will be better off than the guy who uses only lower case. Hackers will go for the quickest and easiest accounts to crack, so make it hard for them.

Some other examples (and don’t ever let me catch you using these) are:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Tqbfj0tld.

I like ice cream?
1Lik31c3cr3@m?

Elf babes are hot!
31fB@be$@r3h0t!