Naive crypto noobs? iota support from iota deleted the portion that said it is easier to generate a seed with online generator now it says Think about your seed as the combined username and password that grants access to your bank account. If anyone obtains your seed, they can login and access your funds.
You must generate a random 81 character seed using only A-Z and the number 9. It is imperative that your seed be an 81 character random assortment of A-Z and 9. Use one of the options below to generate your seed:
Depending on your operating system, you can use onboard tools to generate such a seed:
Windows
Linux
cat /dev/urandom |tr -dc A-Z9|head -c${1:-81}
Mac
cat /dev/urandom |LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Z9' | fold -w 81 | head -n 1
HMMMMm. it does not say online generator anymore???