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Topic: How many passwords do you have?
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Edwin Schwing
Expert Film Handler
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Posts: 116
From: Las Vegas NV
Registered: May 2002
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posted 09-03-2005 03:01 AM
I think I have about 27 different passwords right now.
Don't ask me to name them, because I won't! Don't ask me to name them, because I CAN'T!!!
Between work's different password requirements and my personal "requirements" I can't keep track!
Heaven forbid I should ever need to think of a new password, I would never know how to remember it.
I hope my "e" machine keeps up for a few years, cause I don't think I can even remeber 4 of my passwords! Heck, I don't even know my password for Film-tech!
Some of my "famous" former passwords include... spiderman batman thematrix names of former boyfriends pet names old addresses other movies generic things like, Coke, Pepsi, Dr.Evil, philhill, etc etc. (yes, I do capitalize my passwords)
And then "they" make me change it...
UGH (hmm, UGH may be a good password some day...)
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Randy Stankey
Film God
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Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-03-2005 11:00 AM
quote: Edwin Schwing
Some of my "famous" former passwords include... spiderman batman thematrix names of former boyfriends pet names old addresses other movies generic things like, Coke, Pepsi, Dr.Evil, philhill, etc etc. (yes, I do capitalize my passwords)
Those are some of the weakest passwords you could ever have.
Any word which is in an ordinary dictionary should be OUT.
There is something called a "dictionary attack", whereby a hacker reverse engineers the password system by comparing known words to the "hash" passwords stored in the computer he is attacking. When he gets a match he has found out your password and is free to roam your account.
By using UNCOMMON words and words which are NOT related to you or your life you exponentially increase the amount of time required for said dictionary attack to be successful. When the hacker realizes that it's taking too long to get your password he'll (hopefully) give up and move on to easier targets.
I use words like "GoGoDoggy" and "FratiStat". Essentially, nonsense words but if you chose them out of your fertile imagination they are something you will probably always remember... AND other people will almost never figure them out.
I have a couple of passwords that, even if I verbally told you what the password was, you'd never get it. You'd stand there and say, "Huh?!"
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-04-2005 05:04 PM
For really important accounts that I care about (e.g. online banking), I use things like my employee number from a previous job, or a friend's phone number before they moved house: in short, a seemingly random collection of characters, but one I've already memorised and which isn't written down anywhere else in my home or office documents. This also means that I can write down a 'reminder phrase' (for example, writing 'Password - Serena's old 'phone number' on a bank letter), knowing that it'll tell me what the password is but will be meaningless if that piece of paper falls into the wrong hands.
Beware of 'x-rated' passwords! Many years ago, when at university, I heard an interview with a very irritating Welsh person on the radio. That afternoon I logged in to the university's network for the first time and had to set my password. With the broadcast fresh in my mind, I set it to 'sheepshagger' (a term of endearment the English use to describe the Welsh sometimes). A few weeks later, I was unable to log in and had to go to the helpdesk. The lady at the desk, who had a Welsh accent, said: 'Err, OK, I'll see if it works here. What's your password?'
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