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To: lifeofgrace
one of my former passwords that I rotated out last year was similar to
Jannifer_Anist0n@barbieQ-46970:)

If someone can guess THAT, with the intentional spelling error, the substitution of numbers for letters, the emoticon, 32 characters, etc, then they deserve to have access to my FReepmail.

I save the tougher passwords for my more personal webpages.

19 posted on 09/18/2014 7:03:12 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

It’s good to have a strong password of course but that’s not how most of the “hacking”’is done these days (by cracking passwords). You’ll note for example in the latest buzz worthy story, celebrity iCloud pictures were “hacked” when the theives used intelligence and savvy to simply reset the iCloud password to their own. In other words they guessed the answers to the security questions associated to the accounts to gain entry to said accounts. Questions like “what’s your favorite color” or “your mother’s maiden name” have answers that through Facebook (or other public posts) or through public record searches, an enterprising hacker can guess rather easily.

These “security questions” are actually making online activity less secure ironically. Strong password creation (such as you posted) should be the norm and no way (or at least a very complicated way) to reset one’s password should be available. The “security questions” have been a step back in security.


22 posted on 09/18/2014 7:15:04 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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