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How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords
- mfukar 16y agoRandomly substitute numbers for letters that look similar. The letter ‘o' becomes the number ‘0′, or even better an ‘@' or ‘'. (i.e. m0d3ltf0rd like modelTford)* This is essentially useless. Decent password cracker tools already try such substitutions. For example, John The Ripper contains such substitutions as part of the default ruleset. Other than that and other nitpicks, nice article. People need to know.