How To Make a Simple Password - Unhackable for 580 million years!

[micoblanco]

I want to bring more emphasis on our number one tip - Strong Passwords. The effectiveness of security of increasing the length of a password by just one more letter, symbol or number grows in a very, VERY steep exponential rate.

In other words, for every extra digit you add on to you password you triple, quadruple or even 5x the different possibilities. The longer the password, the more effort required to discover it. However, longer passwords also means more difficult it is for users to remember it.

source: http://www.blogussion.com/blog/tips-...n-years-hacker

What's your password? I mean, are you using strong password? Do you change your password regularly?

Edited: Added an image from the source.

[crawler]

are you a hacker? asking for our passwords. lol. just kidding.

i usually construct a password with letters only, but i observed before, others can easily guess it even my little nephew. so what i did was, i set up a password with a good combination of letters and special characters with a minimum of 8 char. bad thing it caused me such agitation coz sometimes its hard for me to remember it once i retrieve.

[FnF]

Crawler, if you have Microsoft Office, try using OneNote to store your password in. It works slick.

I use it also to store client data, sql passwords, cms admin passwords, and cpanel words for each clients domain. Each domain has it's own tab, it's organized and very nice.

micoblanco, I've been planning to get in touch with a number of my clients and convince them to tighten their passwords. Would you mind if I used your little stats image there?

[micoblanco]

Originally Posted by crawler

are you a hacker? asking for our passwords. lol. just kidding.

Well, that's one of my dream. To be a world-renowned hacker! lol

Originally Posted by crawler

i usually construct a password with letters only, but i observed before, others can easily guess it even my little nephew. so what i did was, i set up a password with a good combination of letters and special characters with a minimum of 8 char. bad thing it caused me such agitation coz sometimes its hard for me to remember it once i retrieve.

Haha... your nephew is good in terms of "eye-hacking". lol

Originally Posted by FnF

micoblanco, I've been planning to get in touch with a number of my clients and convince them to tighten their passwords. Would you mind if I used your little stats image there?

Well, that image is not mine.. but I guess there's no big deal if you're going to use it as a reference to convince your clients to tighten up their passwords and besides, it's for their own good. Just don't forget to mention the source.

[crawler]

Originally Posted by micoblanco

Haha... your nephew is good in terms of "eye-hacking". lol

Yah. In fact he's only 12 years old. But then he didn't win on cheating as i do a very quick type. He never had a chance to fancy me again with those "eye-hacking" tricks.

[micoblanco]

^ Haha I think he's currently retrieving all the data from the key-logger that he installed yesterday on your PC and by this time, he's probably changing your password or doing some prank things to your accounts. I like your nephew... he's awesome!

[ForumBoosters]

I use letters, symbols and case (capital and not) in my passwords.

[jabo]

wow, I usually have 12 to 14 characters on my passwords specially on my mail, wonder how long a human hacker is going to figure that out... well, except you Mico, you already know my password...lol

[P.O.S.]

Originally Posted by jabo

wow, I usually have 12 to 14 characters on my passwords specially on my mail, wonder how long a human hacker is going to figure that out... well, except you Mico, you already know my password...lol

Well I guess that depends if your 12-14 password contains your name and/or surname with a couple of numbers at the beginning or end (usually it's the birth date for some people).

[htmlbasictutor]

You could use one of these password creators:
GRC's Ultra High Security Password Generator

Secure Password Generator

[Jenie0109]

I always add a number at the end of my password. You are very right there micoblancong pogi. It increases the strength of the whole password because possible combination is increased, making it harder for a hacker to crack.

[seo-neon]

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

You could use one of these password creators:
GRC's Ultra High Security Password Generator

Secure Password Generator

insane password maker... but that's nice in terms of total security for passwords...
I have a habit of using some ascii code(if permited) on my major accounts, aside from different caps/non-caps and symbols variation...
The most important in making passwords is that you CAN remember it...

[desertfish]

YES,u can keep u password changed regularly and make strong password

[teamnirvana]

I prefer using commonly used words but include them with special characters which I like the most and specific numbers

[Moneymen]

U really thing someone will bother to brute force your password come on ppl its year 2009 nobody does that except for hash cracking
there are alot easier methods to find someone's passwords
i 70% of ppl is still uneducated on those fields that is why i made site dedicated to security especialy webmasters and websites security but also users security

[athul]

Cool ... My passwords are all 8-9 characters ... Hack me till your death

[mr.joebert]

I always use passwords that start with high digits so that brute forcers will have to take a long time to get around to them, and then I change them to use low starting digits so that the brute forcers will have already passed them, next I post about what I do in a public place so that brute forcers will catch on and start in the middle, that way I can start my passwords with just below medium digits and the brute forcers will still have to come back around from the end, and last but not least, I snicker as I think about the social engineer who just wasted precious seconds reading a rope-a-dope post.

[Moneymen]

Pretty unnecessarily to do
check out the tutorial on my website to learn how to make bulletproof passwords that are easy to remember and to learn also is that good enough to protect u or u need some more additions also explained there

http://free4udirect.com/free/index.p...passwords.html

[mradamsmith]

thats a pretty interesting article, i really should start using stronger passwords lol

[AL Jones]

My hotmail account got hacked with a virus and my password was very simple. I've changed it up with numbers.