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PunkGod

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reply to dave
Re: Secure way of renaming Administrator account

said by dave See Profile:

Ah, I think it's better to choose something meaningful. Spend all your 'weird character' budget on the passphrase.

I can't see there's any theoretical gain in making the username and the password 'unguessable'.
I will agree with dave, a passphrase would be a good idea. I use them on most of my computer except something I really don't care about.

Here is a good link to check out.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passphrase
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