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I have waited for this for so long. I'm glad someone finally took it up and and more importantly that its on a site as popular as dropbox. (this way hopefully t
by wh-uws 15y ago
I have waited for this for so long. I'm glad someone finally took it up and and more importantly that its on a site as popular as dropbox. (this way hopefully the thinking will gain some traction)
Every time I'm forced to have a password with 3 or 4 character classes I sigh and think of that xkcd comic
Edit: also try typing the password from the xkcd comic here https://www.dropbox.com/register https://www.dropbox.com/register
nice touch
- eblume 15y agoFor the lazy, if you enter "correcthorsebatterystaple" the password strength gets set to "lol" with an info-box that reads something along the lines of "Don't take the webcomic too seriously. :)"
- comex 15y ago...but, oddly enough, not "correct horse battery staple" (at least, that's how I'm used to writing passphrases; I guess the comic could be interpreted either way.)
- vog 15y agoI find that message misleading. The xkcd comic does have a point, and thus should be taken seriously. (Despite the obvious downside that those passwords take longer to type, which is why I still prefer short, cryptic passwords.) So a better message might be: "Don't follow the webcomic too closely. :)"
- wh-uws 15y agoIts saying dont use that particular password. Any attacker of this script would know what it was inspired by and attempt that password in a dictionary. Rendering it about as useless as 123456789 in this instance
- schiffern 15y agoIt actually says, "Woah there, don't take advice from a web-comic too literally!"
- taw 15y agocorrecthorsebatterystaple1 works.