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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on March 05, 2011, 11:11:19 PM
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We've all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that's hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won't hurt either.
That's a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password (http://howsecureismypassword.net/) helps us understand why they're important.
It's basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from "weak" to "strong", it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That's a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.
For example, when I entered "rabbit", it came back with "your password is one of the 500 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly". "rabbit5" would take two hours, "$rabbit5" would take 38 days, and "$rabbitZ5" would take 237 years. It's quite enlightening to see what a difference three simple characters can make.
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/05/how-secure-is-my-password-lets-you-know-just-that/
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Would anyone seriously enter a password they use into that site?
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Would anyone seriously enter a password they use into that site?
Probably....
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Did you see who is the one doing this?
http://www.smallhadroncollider.com/