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The Case For Lousy Passwords
itwbennett writes "Since the Gawker and McDonald's hack attacks, the web has been overrun with admonishments against using weak passwords. But weak passwords have their place too, says blogger Peter Smith. Like, for example, on Gawker, where he really doesn't care if it gets cracked. 'Life is too short to be worrying about 24 character passwords for trivial sites,' says Smith. And, to put things in perspective, your good passwords are pretty weak too. In a 2007 Coding Horror article, Jeff Atwood points out that the password "Fgpyyih804423" was cracked in 160 seconds by the Ophcrack cracker."
Anytime I visit a site that wants a signup, I don't bother signing up.
12345 has always worked for me, on every site I've used. Some sites require a 6, and some even 7 and 8. I've never been hacked once!
I'd also like to add that I'm a giant douche and a poopy-head!
Look it didn't even take me three minutes to crack his account.
You think that's secure? Well it took me just under sixty seconds to hack your account Mr. "Anonymous Coward". Now I'm going to spend the rest of the day on this site playing the fool and saying stupid things in your name.
If none of these work, register an account with a throwaway email address (mailinator etc.) and share it on bugmenot and its clones.
This seems like a good idea in theory, but it can backfire. For example, I used to use a particular email address for certain...less reputable sites. Since those sites occasionally do various email verification things, I had to check that email address every so often so I couldn't just throw it away. Over time, I started to use that address for more and more sites until I eventually remembered that address better than my actual email address. After that, it wasn't long before I instinctively started using is for *everything*.
Anyway, long story short my primary email address is now midgetgrannyhorseporn@donttellmywife.org.
Yeah, bugmenot is cool. I use it for my online banking.
I usually just tell them my mother's maiden name is cthulhu, and then the bank gives me all their money.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
So you are the prick that made me have to use midgetgrannyhorseporn22@donttellmywife.org.