Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 -0500
Michael Mol<mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm seriously unconvinced that concatenating words significantly
increases the difficulty of the problem. Just as a mentalist will
presume you're thinking about '7', your average demographic would
probably draw from a small pool of source words, even latching on to
catchphrases and other memes. You're likely to see
"steamingmonkeypile", "nyanyanyan", "dontsaycandleja-" and
"hasturhasturhast-" used more than once, for example. I'd give a
better list of likely results, but I don't want to run too far afoul
of good taste in public posting. :)
I agree. Longer pass{words,phrases} only increases the difficulty of
the problem, but not significantly so.
I use those online password strength testers. I don't use the exact
characters tho. I replace a character with a similar one. I may
replace the letter A with the letter Z. I leave cases the same tho
since they make a difference. I at least try to get them to 100% and
for sites like my bank, I add a few more weird characters for good measure.
The password I use for my banks has both upper and lower case, a few
numbers and some of the thingys above the numbers on the top row. You
know, !@#$%^&*(). Mine is reasonably long but it is not based on
anything related to me. It's just sort of a random thing that I can
remember pretty well but HATE to type in. That's why I like Lastpass.
It fills them in for me so that I can have a really nice strong password
but I don't have to type it in each time.
On a security related question. Why does so many people have their
facebook accounts and other similar sites hacked? Do hackers just guess
their passwords or do they break into the websites? I have facebook,
myspace, google+ and a couple others and have had them for years. I
have never had mine hacked into, at least not yet. I'm just curious.
Is it a windoze thing? lol
Dale
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