Haha! I checked all my paswords, and I have safe passwords. Not even one was in there. Which is cool. Thanks for the find there. I think this article needs to get out more so people can see why they are getting their accounts hacked into. I am surprised at some they had though, I would never of guessed a lot of those, not that I have ever tried getting into someone's account either. Oh well. Hey thanks!

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Remember the movie "Hackers?"

What were the Plague's four most commonly used passwords?

Love, Sex, Secret, and God!

LOL

I like the idea of using a phrase. Now if I could just think of one! (Hmmm,,,, "The Rain In Spain..." "FourScoreAndSeven..." "BeamMeUpScotty") ROFL....

//Captain.Jerry/

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the most secure as a password you can get is using a variety of different types of characters (symbols as well if possible) and different cases.

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the germans in WW2 thought they had an unbreakable coding machine - the enigma. but the allies cracked the code by fidning out the password was 1234! (or somethign similar like qwerty).

that's a lesson to keep in mind as it pretty much cost the germans the war.

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... And the easiest to forget! LOL

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Another hint is use some different passwords :

Like the password for POP mail is sent over the network in plain text , so this one is easy to decode.
You may use a strong password but if you are using everywhere the same, once you get one you get them all.
And so you can make it so hard that you even can't remember your own passwords.
There are even freeware programs to store all your passwords in 1 application.

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Quote Absolute: L@tS0fcH4r5_|v|4kE490oDPA5Svv0rD^£

Actually, this is pretty easy to crack... it's made of dictionary words all with alternate representations - you can code a program to take that into account. Maybe you've even prompted a hacker to create a program that does that. Plus, you wouldn't remember the capitalization... I hope.

Also, "CircLEsarEfun57ILIKETrainS" or the such is not a good password either because it is made of dictionary words... programs can get around this.

A good way to make a short password is to make up a word:
e.g.
Aedapa
that isn't in the dictionary...
homevti is not a good pass because it is mostly a dictionary word...
also, ylper (reply spelled backwards) is very easy to crack because programs check for words spelled backwards...

Eventually any password is crackable, but if it is 15 letters or longer for a windows password, it takes months to crack. I mostly know about windows password, but the easy-to-hack hash type can only go up to 14 letters, after that it is much harder to crack.

Hope this helps someone...

 

 

 

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I agree!! You should use number, letters and symbols so that you password is not easy to guess. You want a password you can rememember but one that others can not guess.

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I think most of the more modern scripts nowadays, from FTP control php scripts to more complicated discussion boards, have built in functions to tell whether a password provided by the user is a strong or a weak one. I have come across such a discussion board. It informs me that the password I am using is a weak one and it does not allow me to proceed until I provide another one. I am not using something like my date of birth or a string similar to my user name as the password, it just turns out that since they are all alphabets, the security is still not good. I have to put in some numerals in my string to make it stronger to pass the security check. I think such built in functions are quite good.

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To make a decently secured password go to http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/p...-generator.html. Make sure that the length of your password is at least 6 characters (although it really should be 10) and that all of the "character option" checkboxes are checked.

My password wasn't on the list , although I didn't expect it to be.

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