Got anything lined up to celebrate?
Got anything lined up to celebrate?
which is why such passwords are rubbish (see previous link). example i just generated password "4p$]65[K4+:H]&gk". the site gives the supposedly handy way to remember as "4 park $ ] 6 5 [ KOREAN 4 + : HULU ] & golf korean".
the password "parkkoreanhulugolf" would be far easier to remember and is order of magnitude more secure as its 2 characters longer. throw in a capital, number or symbol if sites insist. all about the length, not the complexity (as the actress said).
- Pray that every site you sign up to encrypts them. Otherwise, if you don't do the above. You're buggered.
vBulletin used to have an admin function whereby you could enter a password and it would tell me all users who had that word as their password. (Passwords are encrypted, the admin function would encrypt the entered string and compared it to the stored encrypted passwords). As you say, there were a fair few people who were using "seagulls".
That function doesn't exist any more, but the admin panel is currently reporting that 34 people have a password that is the same as their username.