Comments on: Remembering those Passwords!

By: ann

ann — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:41:08 +0000

I was under the impression that our passwords are visible ‘elsewhere’ I was on one of the sites that worldstart had shown that shows our passwords.
has this changed?

By: randal

randal — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:49:40 +0000

Lee, you’re absolutely right. Fewer is correct. Thanks for the grammatical correction.

And Ron, I was merely using Pa55w0rd as a less-crummy alternative to “password”. Of course, the more complex your password is, the harder that it will be for hackers or hacking programs to guess. I was trying to point out (perhaps I failed) that using a combination of upper and lower case letters and numerals and/or special characters strengthen your password. No, for me to use Pa$$w0rd1964 as my password wouldn’t be the best idea, but it would beat the heck out of “password”.

Thanks for the comments.

Randal

By: Citizen Lee

Citizen Lee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:35:32 +0000

While the article has valuable information of which I shall take advantage, I must say that the word “less” in the first sentence is totally incorrect. The proper and correct word is “fewer”. The rule is that if you can count anything, the word when comparing is fewer. When you can’t count, as in milk, the word is less.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:45:07 +0000

Sorry, I don’t agree with a couple of your suggestions. Simple translitterations like “Pa$$w0rd” and “Pa55w0rd” are too obvious. They will be in every hacker’s rainbow table.

The letter shift is better, as long as you don’t use a common dictionary word, or a word closely related to you.

Using a birthday as a significant number is not a good idea. A hacker doing an attack based on “Social Engineering” you will know dates like that.

By: iamsra

iamsra — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:45:22 +0000

Why bother so much…just use lastpass or roboform (google it) and these programs will do this and much much more amazing things for you.

Tchau