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"Password are like underwear...

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







But it's pretty scary though too...image

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aka Dan

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I'm in the 1100 year category.

    Russ, NCNE
  • I forgot mine..


    already

    it'll take me a millenia to recall it.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, mine is off the lower right of the chart. I guess I am paranoid.
  • Mine also includes "special characters" !@#$%^&amp;*()_+?><":{}';}{[] where allowed. image
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...and it takes 4.2 X 10 ^ 806,999 monkeys and typewriters to write War and Peace in a single try.
    Tempus fugit.
  • New Scientist article on password cracking with GPUs instead of CPUs.
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,321 ✭✭✭✭✭
    These guys can crack any password.
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    Larry

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you use IDvault.. you have no worries.. cannot understand why y'all don't use it. Cheers, RickO
  • What's IDvault?
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    Wonder if selling my wife's used passwords on eBay is against their rules.
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  • << <i>New Scientist article on password cracking with GPUs instead of CPUs. >>





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



    Jerry
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139


    << <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.
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  • 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.

  • "Password are like underwear... You Have The Hershey Squirts and Leave A skid Mark
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  • is this the right IDVault? Text
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    I'm in the 9.07 days category...no one better try to hack my password!
  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭
    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.
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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


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

    Looks like the stock market in full swing.


    Hoard the keys.
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    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.
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  • I was hoping you were not gonna say "And I change mine once a year!"
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    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • So I take it "password" is not a good password..imageimage







    Herb
    Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,732 ✭✭✭✭✭


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



    Why are you cussing at us?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    you guys aren't using roboform yet?
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Trustno1 posted the correct link for IDvault. Cheers, RickO

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