The Worst Passwords You Could Possibly Use Are…
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If you use any of those and you work in IT you deserve whatever happens to you. Hate to be mean, but good grief.
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@MattSpeller said:
If you use any of those and you work in IT you deserve whatever happens to you. Hate to be mean, but good grief.
... and a beating.
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I thought passw0rd was secure, though
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
If you use any of those and you work in IT you deserve whatever happens to you. Hate to be mean, but good grief.
... and a beating.
Another notch in the customer service baseball bat
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@IRJ said:
I thought passw0rd was secure, though
You have to add and ! at the end to make it super secure.
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It is mind-boggling that in this day & age people still use these passwords. Thankfully, software vendors are starting to include password "blacklists" of prohibited words & variations of words.
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@brad_altn said:
It is mind-boggling that in this day & age people still use these passwords. Thankfully, software vendors are starting to include password "blacklists" of prohibited words & variations of words.
That just means people are coming up with creative alternatives for the same simple passwords.
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Just to mess with the hackers, some of my passwords now include phrases... for instance... My Yahoo email password is "I hate facebook 2013!"
*runs off to change Yahoo password.
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They sniffed out my password... "princess".
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@ChrisL said:
They sniffed out my password... "princess".
It's OKAY change "princess" to "Pr1^c3S$" and you'll be good for another 30 minutes.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@ChrisL said:
They sniffed out my password... "princess".
It's OKAY change "princess" to "Pr1^c3S$" and you'll be good for another 30 minutes.
Not enough dollar signs.
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FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....
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@DustinB3403 said:
FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....
More than enough time to come up with a new password... like ':PR!n<3$$'
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Where as
"qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm"
Is an estimated 48 quintillion years...
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@ChrisL said:
@DustinB3403 said:
FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....
More than enough time to come up with a new password... like ':PR!n<3$$'
If you actually leave the single quotes, sure, secure password to brute force.... otherwise 50 days
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@DustinB3403 said:
@ChrisL said:
@DustinB3403 said:
FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....
More than enough time to come up with a new password... like ':PR!n<3$$'
If you actually leave the single quotes, sure, secure password to brute force.... otherwise 50 days
What is irritating about single quotes is the number of commercial systems that strip them off without notification.
