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The Case For Lousy Passwords

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the love-for-the-lousy dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Bad usernames too by zwei2stein · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ever heard of http://www.bugmenot.com/ ?

    It's nifty, use that instead ...

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    -- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
  2. Re:hard passwords just lead to post it's even more by Vanderhoth · · Score: 3, Informative
    I would assume he meant "post it's" as in people just write all their passwords down and stick them all over their PCs

    Punctuation would have been useful

    hard passwords just lead to post it's. Even more so if you need to change it all the time and can't reuse old ones or even parts of old ones.

  3. Lastpass by defaria · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a word - Lastpass. 'Nuff said.