nebula Posted January 22, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted January 22, 2010 If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe by Ashlee Vance Friday, January 22, 2010 Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was "12345." Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: "123456." Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google's e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug. According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users still decides to leave the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat: they choose a simple, easily guessed password like "abc123," "iloveyou" or even "password" to protect their data. Read the rest here ~~~~ One trick I was taught - use a word but switch some letters for numbers. For example: Take the word "horse" and make it something like "h0rs3" or "h0r5e" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mts Posted January 23, 2010 Group: Junior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 71 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/13/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/12/1985 Share Posted January 23, 2010 it wasn't too long ago that a supermod's password was 12345 and the site got hacked and everything that was posted in 2 weeks or a month got deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 a supermod of what site? clearly you're not talking about THIS site. nebula, another suggestion is to spell your word backwards. but you should always include at least one numerical digit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted January 23, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Backwards: 3sr0h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted January 23, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 a supermod of what site? clearly you're not talking about THIS site. Good question. We don't have a "supermod". (Unless you are referring to the infamous ted with his royal kingdom.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFP Posted January 23, 2010 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 732 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 91 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/31/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/24/1969 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Use a friends telephone number instead...one that you haven't heard from in ages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 or the first phone number you can remember having? LOL, i hadn't thought of that til now. would you believe i can still remember the phone number we had when i was a little girl? i'm not even exaggerating, that was more than 3.5 DECADES ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted January 23, 2010 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 597 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,106 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,837 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted January 23, 2010 !tjump$4me2 Hed!ed4u2 2tou$e4me Here's three that I stopped using 8 years ago. I change all my passwords twice a year and never ever use them again. Old forced habbits from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LadyC Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 most sites won't let you use special characters like $ in a password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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