Speedy Password

[MK Shrimper]

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

Food for thought, courtesy of xkcd:



EDIT - looks like the 'zone has resized the image illegibly small, but the original is at the link.

 

[londonblue]

Are you all seriously giving a random website your passwords?

Are you all mad?

 

[londonblue]

Last Pass is a great little addon. Generates very complex passwords but remembers them for you so you don't have to remember them or write them down.

Except when you use a new machine/phone/tablet...

 

[RobM]

I heard on the radio that putting a "£" in a password reduces your chances of being hacked as only UK keyboards have "£". Sounds good to me. Anyway, if you store a password anywhere you can always use a code system, e.g. move everything up on digit; e.g. store ABC123 when the password is really BCD234

 

[MK Shrimper]

Except when you use a new machine/phone/tablet...

Just have to log in with a master password. I've got it on my personal laptop, my phone, work laptop.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I heard on the radio that putting a "£" in a password reduces your chances of being hacked as only UK keyboards have "£". Sounds good to me. Anyway, if you store a password anywhere you can always use a code system, e.g. move everything up on digit; e.g. store ABC123 when the password is really BCD234

That only works when certain footballers aren't on a state funded holiday.

 

[southendkid]

I tried 'password1' (one of top 50 passwords in use so hackers will always try it before moving on to more obscure words) and the website claimed it would take 10 hours to break in, when in reality it would take 1 second.

 

[Napster]

1 year 29 days.