We highly recommend everyone take steps to improve their own safety on Dropbox and elsewhere online. Here are some common password protection techniques to keep your online accounts safe and secure.
Create unique passwords for each service you use
The safest thing to do is to choose unique passwords for each service you use and guard them closely. If you’ve ever used the same password for more than one website, you should create new unique passwords for each of them.
Tools like Dropbox Passwords can help you manage strong passwords across multiple sites to make your accounts safer.
Tips to create strong passwords
A good password is one that is easy for you to remember but hard for a stranger to guess. Uncommon words work well, but only if you use several together. The following are also helpful:
- Non-standard uppercasing (for example, "uPPercasing")
- Non-standard word spelling (for example, "spellllllling")
- Using personal slang words
- Non-obvious numbers and symbols (note: using "$" for "s" or "0" for "o" is fairly common and likely not enough of a security measure).
