Posted on 12/20/2017 1:24:01 AM PST by x1stcav
Monkey_usatPari$DesertonSeptober85th
I dedicate this thread to John Podesta.
We have your emails John!
I use a passphrase using an important date in my life. For example, “Went to Hawaii on February 18, 1997, from Denver, CO.”
The app classifies that password as virtually unbreakable.
I know and use obscure lines and have a logic of sorts about associating different ones.
Before they guess the password on a server, they have to guess the username. My username is similar to mtghty.jo3!yung. They don’t even get close to it.
The most common usernames to appear in my invalid logon logs are administrator, root, terminal, pos and user.
The bots speak 7eet now so they will substitute 3’s for E’s and the like.
Make it easy to remember. Places you have lived or phone numbers
1405_coUrtYord!4treEt
b$kerzfeld_cA!55667
pH!919-275_4467#cHrltte
Muscle memory will take over once you remember
I use certain keyboard patterns that I just shift when it’s time to change the password.
Ah, Mighty Joe Young!
The King Kong want-a-be from 1949!
For those of us old enough to remember and still remember those old Phone numbers that had you dial 2 letters before the number. A address you grew up with as a child make good ones.
Avoid children’s, pets, spouses names on important sites.
Change them every few months too.
We had an older lady at work who took her password too seriously when told it had to be at least eight characters in length and have a capital letter and lower case letters.
She kept having trouble with the one she entered, she always got it wrong. I finally asked her since you have entered it to the point you are locked out and it is going to need changed what was it? Why John 3:16 she said. Oh well that should be easy. No she said I always mess up the letters. How I inquired? Show me.
FoRgOdSoLoVeDtHeWoRlD... She did the entire verse that way. I said you only have to have one capital letter, how about something like John3:16 or ForGodsolovedtheworld. Oh, I thought the password had to have caps and lower case all through it, this will be easy now.
Another simple password an old IT guy said he encountered all the time was the classic Qwerty.
F*ckingPassword
When I see one of those posts, I always comment "I see that someone is trolling for security question answers..." Several folks have thanked me for it.
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