User Names and Passwords: How to Manage the Keys to the Kingdom

Creating and remembering strong passwords -- like backing up our computers' contents -- is something many of us know we should do, but don't. Can you blame us? Having to come up with user names and passwords for virtually everything we do on a computer is enough to make anyone use "Magic123" over and over. I've even heard of people who keep lists of passwords taped to their computer screens. With a little time and some discipline, you can create strong passwords and do a better job managing them.