Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say

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Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 20, 2013 @06:53AM from the power-of-slang dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NewScientist reports, 'Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.' Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm that targets grammatically correct passwords. Can bad grammar really make your password secure?"

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Of coarse by ArcadeMan · 2013-01-20 06:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Shekuritee bai aubskureeti.

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Re:obvisouly by Dexter+Herbivore · 2013-01-20 06:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I was going to post "frist!" but that's my password.
Re:Randomized passwords are the best by bp+m_i_k_e · 2013-01-20 07:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

None of your phone numbers are changed every 30/60/90 days, while some of your passwords are.
Re:My question is this: by CodeheadUK · 2013-01-20 07:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

A paranoid colleague of mine composed passwords with a sprinkling of extended chars. He entered the whole thing on the numeric keypad with ALT held down.
I've no idea what his password(s) were, but they caused quite a few badly written apps to explode in a spectacular shower of exceptions and unhandled input errors.
Re:Randomized passwords are the best by maxwells_deamon · 2013-01-20 07:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

I don't have a different phone number for every person I call. People I call do not make up rules like my phone number must be at least x characters long, must have a special character in it, can not have a special character in it, must not begin with an upper case letter, must begin with a character, must begin with an emoticon ;-)
and I don't know what other crap they are about to come up with...