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If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe
January 21, 2010 - 7:49am — Blake
If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe
Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google’s e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug.
According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users still decides to leave the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat: they choose a simple, easily guessed password like “abc123,” “iloveyou” or even “password” to protect their data.
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and that
just makes Blake C-r-A-Z-YYYYY!
C-r-A-Z-YYYYY!
I reset all my passwords to 0987654
Friends phone number
Use a friends phone number that you know from memory. That way you do not forget the password. If you put the initials of another friend in front of the phone number it is not reasonable that someone would guess the password.
Joe's number is 555-4678
Another friend is named Tom Smith
Password: ts5554678
Add a wrinkle with ts5554678! or Ts5554678! or ts5554678???
Librarian's password
Make your password the call number of a book in your library. If you have an OPAC you can access you password from any website if you forget it.
Password: PZ7G8233
Call number for book: Looking for Alaska
What is being protected
My thought is that these easy to guess passwords are usually some when they are not protecting personal information but are being used to stop spam.
my pwd is seventeen thousand characters long...
and I haven't been able to log into my email since I created it. but I think it's hack-proof.
Anonymous7:24 may have a point
I use a weak password (well, not that weak--it's three letters and four numbers) for a fair number of sites that require an account and password but that (a) don't involve fiscal issues, (b) don't seem likely to embarrass me if someone else uses the account.
In other words, some of the many sites that require login only to keep track of people, not to secure orders or personal information.
Those sites certainly make up more than 20% of the sites for which I have accounts and passwords. So some of the password-strength problem might (might) not be a real problem: it might be a situation.
Amazing
I've got the same combination on my luggage
Then may the Schwartz be
Then may the Schwartz be with you
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<<(a) don't involve fiscal issues, (b) don't seem likely to embarrass me if someone else uses the account.>>
I thought this said 'facial tissue' for a split second. That's probably coming soon too....sigh.
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