Posted on 10/24/2015 4:56:26 AM PDT by SMGFan
Having trouble coming up with the perfect password for Facebook or Windows 10? You are not alone since many people will resort to easily memorable passwords like “password” or “12345678” so they will not be forgotten. Unfortunately, such easy passwords are also simple to hack, and thus, they are completely insecure. In a related report by the Inquisitr, Bill Gates has long predicted the death of the password, and so, the Windows 10 password system incorporated new technology in order to give conventional passwords a shove off the proverbial cliff.
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I’m told using sentences as passwords is more effective.
Used to teach secure computer systems to military folks - been known for a while that phrases or other random word sets are both secure and easy to remember.
The one that gets me the most are IT security people who insist on you updating your password every 30 days, and don’t allow similar passwords from previous ones. (No Password01, Password02, etc.) The throw in a required capital, lower case, number, and symbol.
You end up never being able to remember the current password, so you have to write it down somewhere, defeating the security in the first place.
I’ve tried LETMEINYOU$&%)$*$*@&!!!
It always says “Password already taken.”
Coming up with passwords, security questions is not a problem, it is remembering or securely recording them.
would picking a word and inserting the current date work if you must change it each month? Place name or number of the current month and year in front , in the middle or after the word?
I could teach a course on creating and tracking secure passwords. The key is a strict set of rules known only to you.
Just as easily hacked because the sentence used is, typically, a well worn phrase.
All good kids like milk
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back
...anything from Proverbs...
...anything from Psalms...
Generators can be used backwards also. It all depends on how much time the hacker is willing to spend on stealing the info.
BH0$ucks
Easy to remember
Has cap, number and special character
...."with Windows 10 new built in key logger having to remember your password will no longer be a problem. If you find hourself locked out simply call (800 NSA ULOC".../S
They can be. A longer phrase is better and a phrase that makes sense only to you, but is not common, is best.
A real nice way to go is to use a password storage product such as 1Password. The concept is that you just need to remember one password to open a local encrypted system which contains all the other passwords you need for all the various sites you visit (Amazon, Facebook, your bank, etc). The application generates and stores random passwords that definitely won't be in any password tables.
The advantage is that you then use different passwords for each site and each of those passwords is very secure. This avoids the problem of people using the same password on all their sites. When they do that, a hacker gaining access to one site can then get into all their sites.
I have a password list that works on over 90% of the computers and servers in the world. It is generated and published every year. The first 100 passwords achieve over 50%. As a rule, none of my easy to remember passwords come near anything on the list. Hackers are notoriously lazy unless they have a specific target, so I should be safe.
I agree. I found a way to beat that system.
I had a password that met their criteria that was easy to memorize. What I did was put the number “1” as the last letter of that password.
When it came time to change passwords, I changed that “1” to a “2”. The next time a “3” and so on and so forth.
Passwords are definitely necessary, but there are systems that can go right around a password directly to info stored.
Facebook has such a system. When I first signed up I listed zero friends. It came up with a suggested list, all were in my email address book. I assumed they had me listed on their facebook page or somewhere face book could access. I asked one such person, and she had me listed no where.
Finally I removed her from my email address book and Facebook quit recommending her as a friend.
I know of another person that had a similar issue.
The only thing that is secure is what you do not put on the internet. Anything you want to keep secure needs to have a physical disconnect from the net, that includes wireless. The dumbest thing is to put secure data on someone’s “cloud”, which I believe Hillary found out the hard way.
Here is a password. Let’s see if anyone can come up with the correct phrase which was used to make the password.
KW>1C$Gt15R
I use a stem password and then add something site specific, for example **********ebay. Easy enough to remember.
Noted for future stealing. ;)
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