What do you use for passwords?
- Thread starter PurpleSky
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Well i use the same password for everything. It started off as just a random word. for this example we will use "Cheesecake" ( As i love cheesecake).
My school computers made me change it every 6 months of so, so i just kept adding numbers on.
It went from "Cheesecake" to "Cheesecake1" to "Cheesecake12" until i was left with something like "Cheesecake123456789".
Then i just came up with a new word! and i just recently left school so no more password changing.
My school computers made me change it every 6 months of so, so i just kept adding numbers on.
It went from "Cheesecake" to "Cheesecake1" to "Cheesecake12" until i was left with something like "Cheesecake123456789".
Then i just came up with a new word! and i just recently left school so no more password changing.
To all those who use a word for their password, for your own sanity, toss a number and shift-number in there somewhere. It makes your password orders of magnitude harder to crack. Although the best overall protection is password length.
An easy to remember password that has many characters is impossible to guess, and impossible to crack with brute force (due to having to test every password shorter then yours first), like so:
'Thisismypassworditisreallylongandwilltake500yearstobruteforce!'
On the other hand, you don't want to use the same password everywhere:
'Thisismyothermypassworditisreallylongandwilltake500yearstobruteforce!'
Why don't you want to use the same password in multiple places? Because if the site gets hacked or has to store your password in plain text for some reason (some sites that tie in third party services like Teamspeak servers have to save the original passwords), then you can be sure someone will try that password on your email account and other places they can guess.
For anyone who is curious, we don't store any passwords, just checksums based on them. Also, we have thousands [http://gyazo.com/27f06a62ddf94963cba8e5969e15b322.png] of people using the same couple passwords. So many people get "hacked" in various situations from having a password that is just a word or a name. It makes me sad.
As far as what I use, my current passwords typically have the domain name in them for length, and then a mix of numbers and symbols that are different for each site to some degree. My non website passwords tend to be random gibberish based on mnemonics to help me remember them. Or generated with nifty programs like APG [http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/]
Too many passwords? Using Post-it notes? Grab a copy of KeepPass [http://keepass.info/features.html] and play with it to see what you think. It's free, EXTREMELY portable (you can keep a backup copy of your heavily encrypted and passworded database on your email account or web server somewhere), and you can run it straight off of a USB stick or something.
An easy to remember password that has many characters is impossible to guess, and impossible to crack with brute force (due to having to test every password shorter then yours first), like so:
'Thisismypassworditisreallylongandwilltake500yearstobruteforce!'
On the other hand, you don't want to use the same password everywhere:
'Thisismyothermypassworditisreallylongandwilltake500yearstobruteforce!'
Why don't you want to use the same password in multiple places? Because if the site gets hacked or has to store your password in plain text for some reason (some sites that tie in third party services like Teamspeak servers have to save the original passwords), then you can be sure someone will try that password on your email account and other places they can guess.
For anyone who is curious, we don't store any passwords, just checksums based on them. Also, we have thousands [http://gyazo.com/27f06a62ddf94963cba8e5969e15b322.png] of people using the same couple passwords. So many people get "hacked" in various situations from having a password that is just a word or a name. It makes me sad.
As far as what I use, my current passwords typically have the domain name in them for length, and then a mix of numbers and symbols that are different for each site to some degree. My non website passwords tend to be random gibberish based on mnemonics to help me remember them. Or generated with nifty programs like APG [http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/]
Too many passwords? Using Post-it notes? Grab a copy of KeepPass [http://keepass.info/features.html] and play with it to see what you think. It's free, EXTREMELY portable (you can keep a backup copy of your heavily encrypted and passworded database on your email account or web server somewhere), and you can run it straight off of a USB stick or something.
The 1st word that poops into my head, then I pray to various unspecified deities that I remember it
Because that's far too clever, and no-one would be able to guess another persons password. Where would the fun be?!MrGFunk said:
I don't want to say what I use for passwords, but reading this topic reminds me of that film "Hackers," with that scene where the teens say what the most common used passwords were.
Love
Sex
Secret
God
They should of added another common used password: Zero. I mean seriously, I met quite a few friends and known a few people who've told me they use the word Zero as a password. I even used it myself long ago on an account for something I deleted like ten years ago. One time while I was in class, I caught a fellow classmate of mine messing with the teacher's computer while he wasn't looking, and for the heck of it, he tried to hack into the file the teacher uses to store students grades in the past. He typed in Zero, on his first try, and it opened for him. I managed to convince my classmate not to change anything on the file and log off of it, but I seriously thought of telling my teacher to change his password to something less commonly used.
Love
Sex
Secret
God
They should of added another common used password: Zero. I mean seriously, I met quite a few friends and known a few people who've told me they use the word Zero as a password. I even used it myself long ago on an account for something I deleted like ten years ago. One time while I was in class, I caught a fellow classmate of mine messing with the teacher's computer while he wasn't looking, and for the heck of it, he tried to hack into the file the teacher uses to store students grades in the past. He typed in Zero, on his first try, and it opened for him. I managed to convince my classmate not to change anything on the file and log off of it, but I seriously thought of telling my teacher to change his password to something less commonly used.
I use a re-worked version of the password I had for things when I was about 6. I changed the capitalization, added a few numbers here and there, etc so that it was easy for me to remember but damn hard for someone else to guess.
Also, I sometimes use a random string of numbers.
Or a re-worked version of an album title by a band I like.
Also, I sometimes use a random string of numbers.
Or a re-worked version of an album title by a band I like.
You don't have to post your password here,you can pm me with it.While you're at it send me your bank account and social security number as well.Treblaine said:
You know what,let's just bypass the middle-man,send me money.Much faster.
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