Posted on 11/20/2011 5:02:59 PM PST by freespirited
Are you really amazed?
don’t call that number !!
trust me on this.
Here’s the password I use for everything. It’s a pain in the ass to remember, though:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983797804995105973173281609631859502445945534690830264252230825334468503526193118817101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730359825349042875546873115956286388235787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104
Would not work on my network, way too easy, no special characters.
I am suprised you have not been hacked.
:-)
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I have the password to my wifi network set as a 128 digit hexadecimal number - no one’s getting on for free.
So then people went from having passwords that they remembered, to writing down their new alphanumeric passwords on a piece of paper they keep under their keyboards. Great increase in security.
I hated that new password every 90 days with no repeats.
Had to log-in/out at least two dozen times a day so I used key combos that were minimal movements that I could fly through, catch a number on the top row and finish with another letter.
Pain the arse but the speed was the most helpful thing.
Now that you’ve disclosed that pattern, the goobers will add that to their “reject variants of prior passwords” algorithm.
123 456, remind me to change the combination to my briefcase!
Baravelli: Who are you?
Wagstaff: I’m fine, thanks. Who are you?
Baravelli: I’m fine too, but you can’t come in unless you give the password.
Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?
Baravelli: Oh no, you gotta tell me!.... Hey, I tell you what I do...I give you three guesses...It’s the name of a fish...
Wagstaff: Is it Mary?
Baravelli: Ha, ha! Atsa no fish!
Wagstaff: She isn’t? Well, she drinks like one. Let me see...Is it sturgeon?
Baravelli: Hey, you’re crazy! A sturgeon, he’s a doctor cuts you open whena you sick. Now I give you one more chance.
Wagstaff: I got it! Haddock!
Baravelli: Atsa funny, I gotta haddock too.
Wagstaff: What do you take for a haddock?
Baravelli: Well now, sometimes I take aspirin, sometimes I takea calomel.
Wagstaff: Say, I’d walk a mile for a calomel.
Baravelli: You mean chocolate calomel. I like that too, but you no guess it. (Slams door. Wagstaff knocks again. Baravelli opens the peephole again.) Hey, whatsa matta? You no understand English? You can’t come in here unless you say swordfish! Now, I give you one more guess.
Wagstaff: (thinking) Swordfish...swordfish...I think I got it! Is it swordfish?
Baravelli: Ha! That’s it! You guess it!
A place I worked had the 90 day password. I chose the word for the place, capitalized it and started with different endings first one was1!, second one was2@, third one was3# and so one.
The only legitimate reason to change a password is it got revealed by someone looking over the person's shoulder or by a key logger.
When prompted at work to change mine I always use the date I was prompted but I intentionally misspell the month such as Novembar20. Not hoolptoof but the thing is easy to remember ( alway the last vowel) and thecword doesn’t appear in the dictionary so common force algorithms don’t work
This is my password to sign on here:
5m1y7FoSAAUpXKgK3ZycG9yiycw6KuAgVDOYedv8soyXhJ91Jbk6QjutXNg5dXJSag9pxZvARcDxMZlH
Let me guess...
A viking kitty walked accross your keyboard?
The moral of the above strip is that, everything else being equal, length triumphs over complexity. Note however that the second password *includes* the spaces. Also @palmer: Dictionary attacks (and rainbow tables) are not obsolete. They are still used. It’s still a valid threat.
Beechwood45789 didn’t either. Wonder why.
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