RockYou Hack Reveals the Worst 20 Passwords
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200,000 users have now changed there password to C0d#9r0j#ct, with a hint that is a link to this thread. :laugh:
hmmm, it'll be the 1 password in dictionary.
Yusuf May I help you?
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from the article: By far, the most popular password on the site was "123456," apparently satisfying a minimum character limit on the site's password restrictions, but doing little for security. A full 290,731 users used this password, far more than the runner-up, the slightly less complex "12345, which attracted 79,078 uses. clickty[^] I have learned a simple trick to create mid-to-strong password by simple substitution. Let us take "codeproject" as case example, it goes as follows - first let us capitalize some letters => CodeProject - substitute "o" with "0" => C0deProject - upper case e (E) can be imagined as mirror image of 3 => C0d3Pr0j3ct - let us sprinkle some chars (SHIFT 3 = # on the US layout keyboard) => C0d#Pr0j#ct - Finally P can be imagines as mirror image of 9 => C0d#9r0j#ct So we went from codeproject => C0d#9r0j#ct and I can use Code Project as my password hint. :cool: The cool part is there is no limit to the imagination and the resulting password can be as close as random characters. How do you create your password?
Yusuf May I help you?
Think of a sentence that you can easily remember, and enter the first letter of every word in caps then finish off by adding something like: $j1
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from the article: By far, the most popular password on the site was "123456," apparently satisfying a minimum character limit on the site's password restrictions, but doing little for security. A full 290,731 users used this password, far more than the runner-up, the slightly less complex "12345, which attracted 79,078 uses. clickty[^] I have learned a simple trick to create mid-to-strong password by simple substitution. Let us take "codeproject" as case example, it goes as follows - first let us capitalize some letters => CodeProject - substitute "o" with "0" => C0deProject - upper case e (E) can be imagined as mirror image of 3 => C0d3Pr0j3ct - let us sprinkle some chars (SHIFT 3 = # on the US layout keyboard) => C0d#Pr0j#ct - Finally P can be imagines as mirror image of 9 => C0d#9r0j#ct So we went from codeproject => C0d#9r0j#ct and I can use Code Project as my password hint. :cool: The cool part is there is no limit to the imagination and the resulting password can be as close as random characters. How do you create your password?
Yusuf May I help you?
I let RoboForm choose a truly random password for me. Unfortunately, any semi-mechanical system such as you've outlined makes it easier to attack. There are tools out there right now that will take a list of dictionary words and transform them into l33tSp34k. While that increases the password-space by 3 or 4 times, but that's nowhere near a random password, in which all possible combinations have to be tried. Note: I'm not associated with Roboform, just a satisfied customer.
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your hint is: "There only only 10 kinds of programmers. Those who get it, and those who do not."
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
your hint is: "There only only 10 kinds of programmers. Those who get it, and those who do not." 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Loved you hint! Had me LOL. I guess that's because I'm the 11th type of programmer, the type that gets it. How many bugs can one line of code have?! --- Adar Wesley