[BiPolar_Nut]

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1970AxLiNg_

That's your passphrase isn't it? Don't lie.

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Actually, 1970 is the year of human flesh I am, and I was trying to think of something enunciable yet not a word, and axling came to mind, then I figured I'd need to throw in a symbol to spice it up a notch (and alternating the shift key on the letters to make it look even more l33t). That's what I came up with as my best example of a "not so great" password that the average Joe may think is very strong.

My throwaway passwords for single-use email accounts are stronger than that lol.


(My passowrd for everything is actually 1970AxLzNg_ )


Oh, yeah...don't use the same password for a bunch of stuff, don't write it on a post-it note and stick it on your monitor, don't save it in a file called passwords.txt, don't log on/in anywhere that sends passwords in clear text (like checking your email via POP or using ps_exec to fire up a process on your buddy's machine for comic relief during the workday or using FTP (besides anonymous/passwordless sites) for anything, even passwords sent via email are potentially opening doors/holes...which again is why I push wired over wireless: no extra security exposure over what you had before adding a client to your wired netework)

Wow...I haven't soapboxed in CTH in a while [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].