"Password are like underwear...

DJCoinz

...change yours often."
Very interesting...got my attention.







But it's pretty scary though too...

Russ

I'm in the 1100 year category.

Russ, NCNE

MORGANHUNTER2

I forgot mine..


already

it'll take me a millenia to recall it.

LindeDad

Eight characters, mixture of letters and numbers, and upper and lower case, for anything envoling money.

And they won't be getting much I spend it all on coins.

Connecticoin

Wow, mine is off the lower right of the chart. I guess I am paranoid.

joeyuk

Mine also includes "special characters" !@#$%^&amp;*()_+?><":{}';}{[] where allowed.

cladking

...and it takes 4.2 X 10 ^ 806,999 monkeys and typewriters to write War and Peace in a single try.

Pentimento

New Scientist article on password cracking with GPUs instead of CPUs.

ldhair

These guys can crack any password.

ricko

If you use IDvault.. you have no worries.. cannot understand why y'all don't use it. Cheers, RickO

StampAlarm

What's IDvault?

Coxe

Wonder if selling my wife's used passwords on eBay is against their rules.

StampAlarm

<< <i>New Scientist article on password cracking with GPUs instead of CPUs. >>





So, whoever buys this program can start craking people's passwords?



Jerry

Coxe

<< <i>

<< <i>New Scientist article on password cracking with GPUs instead of CPUs. >>





So, whoever buys this program can start craking people's passwords?



Jerry >>



You can have the right hardware and software but you also need access to system files to crack the passwords. It isn't like you are going to get thousands of shots at a network password gate even if the network bottleneck wasn't an enormous speedbump rendering graphic accelerators useless. I think the target might be unlocking encrypted stolen drives and things like that.

I used to crack UNIX passwords on a regular basis (white hat stuff though). Used to be a decent program called Crack (among several other similar ones). I wrote my own to give me more flexibility in rulesets and admissible regular expressions as well as to include parsing of web browsing history and bookmarks text. It is amazing how insecure peoples' passwords are very often. I nailed >80% of the passwords on one system in a half hour or so, though I forget as it was a long time ago. People complained about that. But that was expected. I think more folks try harder, or at least I hope so, these days.

beep

Please use a password to logon to your computer. Go to you control panel and enable set a password to prompt you for a password. Use a passphrase like 4scoreand30DayZ=12. Protect the hell out of you online passwords; use a strong password or passphrase like i mentionted. If you logon to a domain at work use a strong passphrase!
This comes up time and time again for network admins.

Paleodale

"Password are like underwear... You Have The Hershey Squirts and Leave A skid Mark

TrustNo1

is this the right IDVault? Text

tightbudget

I'm in the 9.07 days category...no one better try to hack my password!

Frankcoins

The chart is needlessly scary. It assumes the cracker KNOWS you have used only lower case letters, or only letters and numbers, etc. Most passwords are compromised by writing it on a sticky note on your computer, or giving it to a fake phishing site.

Type2

<< <i>These guys can crack any password.
>>

Looks like the stock market in full swing.

itsnotjustme

Once you get a strong password social engineer and other tricks are much more effective than crack programs. Another factor is the more complex the password, the more often the users needs an administrator assist to reset it.

My work policy is minimum 9 characters but must include mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters.

pontiacinf

I was hoping you were not gonna say "And I change mine once a year!"

ibzman350

So I take it "password" is not a good password..







Herb

PerryHall

<< <i>Mine also includes "special characters" !@#$%^&amp;*()_+?><":{}';}{[] where allowed. >>



Why are you cussing at us?

seateddime

you guys aren't using roboform yet?

ricko

Trustno1 posted the correct link for IDvault. Cheers, RickO