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Use a name reservation tool like KnowEm to see if your new username is available across different online properties.
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When you feel like snagging yourself a pair of fly kicks, all you'd need to do is enter your username and password, or phone number and PIN.
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If you bank online, the only thing standing between you and a financial disaster is your password (and perhaps your username).
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This is very convenient, but if that username and password falls into the wrong hands, you can find yourself very quickly in a world of pain.
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While this is no doubt more hassle than just using just the username and password, it dramatically improves account security.
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"Dead pigs, dead ducks... this soup is getting thicker and thicker, " wrote one person with the username Baby Lucky.
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Instead of a physical computer dictating how you do what you do, the Chromebook Pixel is offering you a way to work and connect that requires only your username and password.
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He also advised adopting two-step authentication, which involves a personalised "secret number" allocated to users in addition to a username and password, and ensuring that the latest version of Wordpress is installed.
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What is more, if there was an issue, you could simply create an exception with a username and password.
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That probably means giving no two services the same username and password, exercising caution when entering personal information and generally behaving as if the entire Internet is out to get you.
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