PWs arent useless

[Gomar]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

as opposed by:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/why-no-password-is-safe-from-hackers/

assuming 1,000,000,000,000pws/sec.

95^12 = 546,108,599,233,516,079,517,120 combinations. Would take 17,500 years to hack.
Most PWs are found in %45-55 of tries; thus 8750 years to hack.
Thus, unless you use the name of your pet as a pw, your stand alone encrypted files cant be hacked. E-mail logins have to be long strings, lower case 15+, mixed case+#s+symbols 10+.

 

[JPF_]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

as opposed by:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/why-no-password-is-safe-from-hackers/

assuming 1,000,000,000,000pws/sec.

95^12 = 546,108,599,233,516,079,517,120 combinations. Would take 17,500 years to hack.
Most PWs are found in %45-55 of tries; thus 8750 years to hack.
Thus, unless you use the name of your pet as a pw, your stand alone encrypted files cant be hacked. E-mail logins have to be long strings, lower case 15+, mixed case+#s+symbols 10+.

All my passwords are love123

My accounts are unhackable.

 

[schizrade]

All my passwords are love123

My accounts are unhackable.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You have no chance to survive, make your time!

Ahh good ol classic.

 

[athlon1.2]

All my passwords are love123

My accounts are unhackable.

I once set a linux machine' s root password to: andrew. SSH was open to all. I wondered why there were many logins from China.

 

[Tytalus]