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when creating passwords do yourself a favor and avoid the obvious no 1 2 3 4 or your birthdate and certainly do not restate your username well they may be harder to remember try creating long passwords a different one for every site and use a combination of numbers and letters for example instead of a password like I love cnet 2014 try this uppercase I ! lowercase L a zero for the O uppercase v e uppercase e in a three for the e T dash twenty spelled out and then the number 14 that won't be guests anytime soon now that you have longer more complicated passwords you need a place to remember them the ten-dollar one password app for iPhones and androids is highly recommended the app stores passwords credit card numbers passport information and even generates complicated passwords for you and don't worry 1password boasts military-grade encryption for itself in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News