The Password
The biggest problem arising from the 20th and 21th century account hacking methodology is that, the passwords that were used to handle those accounts were weak. Now to prevent this, stop it ,even before the "hack of an account" takes shape,how would one setup a password that does work?
The first thing you do is stop typing in your name. I am sure the sites themselves say that out loud. "You cannot use your name as password". So, that's one way. The next is to choose something, construct something in your mind that is really complicated, something with a lot of characters and Symbols. " How do I do this?", You ask. Well, for that get back to what all you learn't in your elementary school. THINK HARD.
On the other hand, Do you know the problem with having a password that has got lot of characters and symbols? Its always easy to break that with Brute Force, as it does not need any HUMAN-PSYCO-INTOSPECTION.
Have fun.
The first thing you do is stop typing in your name. I am sure the sites themselves say that out loud. "You cannot use your name as password". So, that's one way. The next is to choose something, construct something in your mind that is really complicated, something with a lot of characters and Symbols. " How do I do this?", You ask. Well, for that get back to what all you learn't in your elementary school. THINK HARD.
On the other hand, Do you know the problem with having a password that has got lot of characters and symbols? Its always easy to break that with Brute Force, as it does not need any HUMAN-PSYCO-INTOSPECTION.
Have fun.
posted by Ashrith Barthur at
4:07 PM
1 Comments:
Bruteforcing does take time over a strong password. Over time, bruteforcing will only get easier and we'll quickly be at a stage where a strong password will be too complicated for a human to remember but anything simpler will be easily bruteforce-able. (I guess it's already true with weak passwords now). One thing that might work then would be multiple password fields with the same complexity as current ones with say, added CAPTCHA :).. what do you think?
BTW .. long time.. how are you doing?.. remember me?
Praveen
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