Is Your Password Strong ?

[thathagat]

Your online accounts, computer files, and personal information are more secure when you use strong passwords to help protect them.But do you?
check your password

why strong passwords are needed:
How I?d Hack Your Weak Passwords - Passwords - Lifehacker
Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
What’s My Pass? The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

 

[not so gray matter]

The better question is, do you even use a password? And/or is your password one of the following words:

Your Child/Pet's Name
Your Phone #
1234
Password
Love
God
Money
S*x
etc

If you even came close to answering yes, smack yourself and then spend an hour remaking all of your passwords.

Here >> http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

 

[Dinesh]

 

[si8mon]

This is NOT good

 

[not so gray matter]

Both of mine are rated @ Medium, but those are user account passwords, and I use different passwords for everything except non-secure accounts.

The best passwords look like this:

d8Yn%3QfxB7s.aV

That will give you an excellent rating, but it's kinda hard to remember.

m!(r0$oft-w|nd0se-$3>en
or
$3\/3n-f0r|_|m$-d0+-c0m

That will also give you an excellent rating and might be easier to remember.

 

[jav]

Both of mine are rated @ Medium, but those are user account passwords, and I use different passwords for everything except non-secure accounts.

The best passwords look like this:

d8Yn%3QfxB7s.aV

That will give you an excellent rating, but it's kinda hard to remember.

mi(r0$oft-w|n-d0se-7

That will also give you an excellent rating and might be easier to remember.

Actually you can get best rating even with easy to remember passwords...

Most of my passwords rated Best...

 

[Dinesh]

This is NOT good

Why are you hiding your password with the black mark? Its "hidden" already. No one can read those black dots.

 

[Tews]

"...Paranoia runs deep..."

 

[Dinesh]

"...Paranoia runs deep..."

You cant afford to take any kind of risk with the passwords. Hackers, you know.:roflmao:

 

[malexous]

d8Yn%3QfxB7s.aV

That will give you an excellent rating, but it's kinda hard to remember.

My password looks something like that. It can be easy to remember if you think of a sentence that means something to you like a favourite quote and then use the first letter of every word, adding or changing some of the letters for numbers, punctuation, and special characters.

Why are you hiding your password with the black mark? Its "hidden" already. No one can read those black dots.

Length, although, it's so long it probaby wouldn't matter anyway.

 

[Jonathan_King]

I think I'm all set for the time being.

 

[Dinesh]

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I think I'm all set for the time being.

 

[si8mon]

This is NOT good

Why are you hiding your password with the black mark? Its "hidden" already. No one can read those black dots.

Hackers and you can never be too cautious

 

[chubalz]

Anyone can agree with me.

The best Password is like this.

Ex: Avast name.
To type the "Avast" make it "sbsdy".

Obviously sdsdy is right side of the Avast letters of the keyboard.

The first try is a bit confusing but if you always do this it makes keyboard type faster.

This method is very effective.

If you guys want long pass.

Ex: Americans = s,rtovsmd

 

[Jonathan_King]

Anyone can agree with me.

The best Password is like this.

Ex: Avast name.
To type the "Avast" make it "sbsdy".

Obviously sdsdy is right side of the Avast letters of the keyboard.

The first try is a bit confusing but if you always do this it makes keyboard type faster.

This method is very effective.

If you guys want long pass.

Ex: Americans = s,rtovsmd

That does a very good job of not using any dictionary words, but it is still relatively easy to brute-force that password.

A strong PW contains no dictionary words, upper and lowercase letters, and special symbols such as %.

 

[malexous]

http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi&s=articles

 

[chubalz]

Anyone can agree with me.

The best Password is like this.

Ex: Avast name.
To type the "Avast" make it "sbsdy".

Obviously sdsdy is right side of the Avast letters of the keyboard.

The first try is a bit confusing but if you always do this it makes keyboard type faster.

This method is very effective.

If you guys want long pass.

Ex: Americans = s,rtovsmd

That does a very good job of not using any dictionary words, but it is still relatively easy to brute-force that password.

A strong PW contains no dictionary words, upper and lowercase letters, and special symbols such as %.

That was just a simple example.

Its not good making random letter or numbers memorizing the pass.

Actually you can twist that technique or improve it.

Its up to the users doing it.

You can make this also.

Avast = qfqw5. This is upward.

As i repeat its up to the users making twist on the keyboard technique but your main pass is very easy to memorize.

This is good if someone is looking at you while you logging in your account.

This is excluded for spyware or keylogs.

 

[Jonathan_King]

I make my passwords by starting out with a phrase: spring is here! Then I change the letters accordingly: $pR!n&_Is-h34E!

Then it's just a matter of practicing till I can type that fast.

 

[chubalz]

I make my passwords by starting out with a phrase: spring is here! Then I change the letters accordingly: $pR!n&_Is-h34E!

Then it's just a matter of practicing till I can type that fast.

Its a good password but i think its not simple technique.

And need more practices.

I think you need to memorize for that.



My technique is very simple and yet very effective and very confusing to people looking at you while your typing.

Actually if i didn't say the pattern mostly people here gets time to analyze what i did.

It was only a simple example what i did=)

 

[Luckystar]

Huh, mine only came out at Medium. Better rethink my passwords.

Now, Could i remember what symbols i would use. That's the next problem.

Gold fish memory here.