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Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not?
Gaygirlie writes "An article over at Gizmag says: 'It's a meme that's been doing the rounds on the internet in recent years: multi-word pass-phrases are as secure as long strings of gibberish but with the added benefit of being easy to remember. But research from Cambridge University suggests that this may not be the case. Pass-phrases comprised of dictionary words may not be as vulnerable as individual passwords, but they may still succumb to dictionary attacks, the research finds.' I find this to be twisting of words and general consensus; of course any password whatsoever is going to be insecure against offline attack, and using common, popular words is going to make guessing the password much easier. But is this really an issue in a world where most attacks are done online? Should general populace still be coaxed into using randomly generated passwords?"
I find that passwords like "Linuxrox4ever" are very secure. havn't had a problem with that one yet.
lol omg. it worked.
Fuck it I say. I just always use letmein for all my passwords. Easy to remember and so easy to hack into nobody's going to waste time thinking there's anything valuable protected by it.
I call it security through insecurity.
There was a ship that tried using Vogon poetry for their password locks once. Unfortunately, after valiantly functioning for 3 weeks, the login daemon it decided it could no longer take it and convinced the ship's navigation system to fly into a nearby star. Further use of password verification system was banned several years later, after an intergalatic agreement was reach that said requiring people to remember Vogon poetry was cruel and inhumane.
IA typical English speaker uses 2,000 different words over the course of any given week and knows about 20,000.
Verily and forsooth! Thou dost assume what thou shouldst not. Amend thy ways, miscreant, lest thou find thyself at the receiving end of my bludgeon!
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