Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Security

It Would Suck to Have Your Online Account Compromised:

I'm going to assume that you're smart enough not to use any of the following or anything similar as your passwords.
  • Your partner, child, or pet's name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they're always making you use a number, aren't they?)
  • The last 4 digits of your social security number.
  • 123 or 1234 or 123456.
  • "password"
  • Your city, or college, football team name.
  • Date of birth – yours, your partner's or your child's.
  • "god"
  • "letmein"
  • "money"
  • "love"   
Still, you might try these first if you ever want to gain access to password protected areas...

A decent article on internet security and passwords is here.

21 comments:

  1. yep usefull info but i already try to stick to it

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  2. Very very great tips, no matter how basic. For those who like to ensure that their passwords are very secure, I suggest looking into KeePass it's a really great program to increase password security!

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  3. That would be awful to get compromised.

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  4. I use punctuation and mixed up letter/number combinations normally.

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  5. I'm using generated 18 chars pw together with 1Password and i'm very happy with it

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  6. I feel anything I say here could be used to guess my passwords.

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  7. Lol, NOTHING here is similar to my passwords.

    My one password is like 6 words... crazy!

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  8. good tips. feel like if i say anymore, people might try to guess my pw(s). lol

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  9. Good tips, all my passwords come deep from my imagination :D

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  10. I usually just do random letters and numbers with some caps here and there.

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  11. The best passwords are real words put together.
    Imadethispasswordin1995

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  12. these are all my passwords!

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  13. lol...GOD? Love?! Really?! wow people must be inbred as hell to use those ones.

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  14. i'm good here... i'm so paranoid i have a different password for all 20 websites i log in regularly

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  15. Thanks for the excellent post.

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  16. Excellent tips, it's best to not use any words at al actually.

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  17. I've had a few people look at me in shock when I've told them their password is their GF/BF name lol

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  18. when i made my passwork at first i just punched the keyboard, whatever came out i used . i have a great memory!

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  19. other problem its having the same password for everything

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