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[Misc] It's World Password Day!
- Thread starter Bozza
- Start date
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,299
May be we could celebrate by everyone posting their passwords on here ?
Nitram
Well-known member
- Jul 16, 2013
- 2,178
Found one 'Knockysknackered1901Bozza'
hart's shirt
Well-known member
Frankie
Put him in the curry
I think i read (possibly in the Daily Express , (don't hate me ) that a massive percentage of the worlds population use their birthday in some way or another as their 4 digit pin number , i used to be one of those very people until 1983
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
Password1
Jokes aside, http://passwordsgenerator.net/ is good at making secure passwords. If you can remember the buggers.
Jokes aside, http://passwordsgenerator.net/ is good at making secure passwords. If you can remember the buggers.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Doesn't everyone use Albion or Seagulls?
That did lead to some hilarity on Nsc a few years ago when one user was hacked by a Palace fan for using one of those words.
He did own up fairly quickly.
That did lead to some hilarity on Nsc a few years ago when one user was hacked by a Palace fan for using one of those words.
He did own up fairly quickly.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,299
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).
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Hey! That's my password!
TWOCHOICEStom
Well-known member
IMO. Use a secure password generator if you can. But the most important things as I see them.
- Don't use exactly the same email/password combination on more than one site. ESPECIALLY important ones like email/banks etc.
- Pray that every site you sign up to encrypts them. Otherwise, if you don't do the above. You're buggered.
- Don't use exactly the same email/password combination on more than one site. ESPECIALLY important ones like email/banks etc.
- Pray that every site you sign up to encrypts them. Otherwise, if you don't do the above. You're buggered.
- Thread starter
- #12
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.
That's a great idea. Also, I believe that tomorrow is 'mums maiden name' day and after that it's 'pin number' day.
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,612
Of you put together the name of your first pet, favourite teacher and mother's maiden name ........
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).
When I worked as part of a Sys Admin team we used to pick a famous line from a film or song and use the first letters of each word - complicated enough that it was difficult to guess but easy enough to remember without having to write it down.
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
FFSFFSFFSFFSMuRRaYsUb@75mins
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
So, we'll all be using GOSBTS1983 as passwords now?
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,892
Funny you should ask ? .... The other day I thought I had better change my NSC password as I have not changed it in years. I have set my account to be permanently logged in, imagine my horror that in order to change my password I have to know what it is currently... and I don't ?
Why not WRITE THEM DOWN* - and earn some money for [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION].
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Personal-Internet-Address-Password-Organizer/dp/1441303251/
* Don't do this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Personal-Internet-Address-Password-Organizer/dp/1441303251/
* Don't do this.
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).
Not so helpful though on the majority of websites that require your password to be:
-between 6 and 10 characters
-must contain numbers and capitals
-must not contain special characters
etc etc