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best practices have changed from using a complex password with lots of upper/lower and symbols to use something longer but easier to remember. More strength fro
by magashna 7y ago
best practices have changed from using a complex password with lots of upper/lower and symbols to use something longer but easier to remember. More strength from misspellings and a few symbols
My Fav0riT Pas%werd
is actually pretty solid compared to
df22@$Fasdf
because the latter is more crackable
- saturn_vk 7y agoI really like the logic behind this one: https://www.xkcd.com/936/ https://www.xkcd.com/936/ It also doesn't require any special characters and its quite easy to remember.
- twodave 7y agoThe only knock on this strategy is that the more people adopt it the less effective it becomes (crackers will just start trying combinations of common words). The up-side is there are more 4-word combinations in English using only the 10,000 most common words than in any 8-character password, so even if crackers targeted the strategy specifically it's more costly to crack.
- magashna 7y agoMisspelling and using a few character replacements makes a dictionary attack much more difficult. You don't have to make it too hard on yourself, just a few changes to make a really secure password.