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<p>Visitors play games on a computer keyboard during the international gamescom fair in Cologne, western Germany. Frustration over passwords is as common across the age brackets. Bill Lidinsky, director of security and forensics at the School of Applied Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, recommends using a simple mental algorithm, including those that use a space, if a site allows that.</p>

<p>Visitors play games on a computer keyboard during the international gamescom fair in Cologne, western Germany. Frustration over passwords is as common across the age brackets. Bill Lidinsky, director of security and forensics at the School of Applied Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, recommends using a simple mental algorithm, including those that use a space, if a site allows that.</p>

June 27, 2014

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Good passwords are hard to remember ... and may be obsolete
June 27, 2014 9 p.m.

Good passwords are hard to remember ... and may be obsolete

CHICAGO - Good thing she doesn't need a password to get into heaven. That's what Donna Spinner often mutters when she tries to remember the growing list of letter-number-and-symbol codes she's had to create to access her various online accounts.