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Protect your treasured Xltronic account with Good Password Hygiene. Each letter you add to a password doubles its strength. So, never stop adding letters. Put an S on the end of any word to make a strong password. A good password is Pikachus. No! It is Bulbasaurs (squirtles is too short). Always write your passwords in a good font. Classy! guys whag are some other Secitury Tips |
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Using birthdays and family member names is always a good and easy way to remember your passwords! Your street name and number is another good one. Seriously though, my mum is angry because of these security measures now demanded with passwords. Her 1234 became 123321 and now she’s like “letters, symbols, caps? Fuck this shit!” |
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I told my mom not to use a dictionary word and she looked at me like I was asking her to carry a gun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ bulbasaursssssss, no one will ever guess bulbasaursssssssssssssssssssssssssss |
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my passwords are the cleverest in the whole wide world (web) |
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always keep a copy of your xltronic password in a safety deposit box at a numbered swiss bank account. 2-key opening. swallow one key |
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Swiss bank accounts aren’t that special anymore. Chose some island in the Caribbean. |
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hah, i half-wondered if you'd know about swiss banks... i'll update my security practices once i pass (and wash) my key |
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i used to have a solid password scheme that served me well. three or four absurd little mental algorithms that would allow me to generate unique passwords for everything, then run through the same train of thought later, essentially re-generating the password so i didn't have to remember any of 'em. remembering a little bee waltz of policies instead of the actual passwords... ...but, now, it's fucking shit. sites have massively upped their requirements: one special character required, sure... but, now, it has to be one special character from a list of the five special characters they deem acceptable. suddenly, all these sites have obscure, different rules, and they are even more difficult to remember than actual passwords. like... does my cell provider allow my usual special characters, or did i have to pick one i'd normally never use? then they lock the account after five failures; i can't even really trial an error. so i've resorted to the little black book |
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what you do is the year justin beiber was born multiply by his height divide by how many albums he has add i<3jb at the end and there you have it! |
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oh height is in meters by the way so if he's 190cm it's 1,90 meters okay lovelies |
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and the album count is without the remixes and dvds |
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and the year is in gregorian |
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I categorise every account in to a genre classification and those genre classifications are numbered 2, 4, 6, 8. These numbers are used to determine how many legs the animal in my password will have. For example if social media was category 6 then each password for a social media account would be built around animals that have 6 legs (insects basically). Once I have the number of legs I look at where the account is for. Let's say it's MySpace. As Myspace begins with M I pick a mosquito. We then use a simple convention to change that password in to something a little less guessable. First we have it backwards and forwards with a vowelless truncation of the website it's for in the middle: mosquitomyspcotiuqsom Then we split by syllable using a rotating sequence of ./ /@ and @. mos./qui/@to@.my./spc/@ot@.uiq./som Then we make every alternate syllable CAPs MOS./qui/@TO@.my./SPC/@ot@.UIQ./mos Then we do a simple 1337speak for the usual. S=5, E=3 etc M05./qu1/@T0@.my./5PC/@0t@.U1Q./m05 Easy. |
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too complicated I'm using password1 for everything |
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something 1 sounds ok to me |
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when i started high school back in 1997 the school computers ran windows 3.1 and novell netware - i was a mini black hat hacker with a load of keyloggers and "forbidden" .txt files. the sysadmin's password was, i shit you not, "password1". happy, happy times |
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that reminds me of the time in mid nineties I was in the pc section of a department store in Liverpool, and my brother was trying the screensaver passwords and the first one he tried unlocked the password was "john" |
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lol poor John. |
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yeah lol |
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i still wonder if he uses john as his password 20 odd years later |
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use pass PHRASES instead, if there is no upper limit on the number of characters a sentence is far easier to remember and has the same amount of entropy (if long enough) as a shorter thing using uppercase/lowercase/other characters i don't do this anyway, i use the same password for every fucking site cos idrgaf lol |
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th3qu1ckbr0wnf0xjum3p0v3rth3lazyd0g2019 |
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also, anyone who says 'don't write your passwords down' is a fucking idiot, and two factor identification is far too much of a potch hacked in 3,2... |
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I use the same passwords words all the time its just human nature to be a bit mentally lazy, my brother has a file he encrypts and all sorts I just don't think its worth the hassle |
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Nah I mean like "The Starving Chaffinches Flew Hungrily Over The Slunk-Dripping Nest" - it's easier to remember stuff like that than 23*(£$(U* type stuff |
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I only substitute the vowels with numbers, otherwise id have no chance of remember it, its like a cheaper cypher technique I guess o==0 e==3 I==1 |
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normally my passwords are much shorter though, but yeah a phrase is actually a good idea thinking about it |
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AFAIK the entire reason people should choose passwords with loads of entropy is cos if the site gets hacked, and the HASHED passwords get stolen, then the BadGuys TM will try and find out what your plaintext password is so they can use it on other sites... ??? |
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I think that lots of people who are telling other people what passwords to choose basically haven't got a clue and are using ideas from the early 90s, and let's face it it doesn't really matter for the vast majority of stuff anyway |
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yeah your right, I should be doing more transformations on each letter swap to add more entropy so there is no disenable pattern that can be brute forced |
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Like when OAPs go the library to find out about the internet and they are still telling them to use Yahoo mail |
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yeah I must admit im really out of the loop, I have a few friends who do cyber security as a full time job but ive only ever taken a cursory interest, the thing I try to consciously do is keep my digital footprint/signature small by not signing up to loads of dubious sites, although being on this one might be a bit of a mistake |
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i remember somebody on here warning us all that the passwords are stored in plaintext... sneakattack? elusive maybe? i forget now. my phone has a red exclamation triangle about this site anyway, http not https etc |
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yeah I wouldn't be surprised, chrome says its unsecure |
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i find old people especially get into habitual ways of doing stuff, if you show them a much more efficient way of performing the same task they don't do it |
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use pass PHRASES instead, if there is no upper limit on the number of characters a sentence is far easier to remember and has the same amount of entropy (if long enough) as a shorter thing using uppercase/lowercase/other characters a solid idea, rendered moot by reality. i'm going to go out on a limb and assert that the byzantine password requirements i've begun to see have all been based on the assumption that people use short passwords. if everyone used a passage from their favorite book for a password for the last ten years of the internet or so, the world would be a much more civil place. instead, now you need to include one of [@,~,#,`,|] or something and a favorite passage doesn't typically have any of these fings. useless as a mnemonic technique because most people have a password like their birthday plus their initials |
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at one point i fancied the idea of writing a $2 amazon PDF called "Zen And The Art of Good Passwords." i still kind of do |
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