Interesting Tidbit about Passwords!

whitefall • 12 August 2011 at 7:04 PM

Okay, I learned that it takes 2 hours to crack a password that five characters long. However, for a 12 character password, it takes 17,000 years. 😱

So, change your passwords! :]

Mine is~ 13 characters. 😃 I'm good to go. ;D

NOTE: Add numbers in yours. But not 123 or anything.

Basically, the passwords that are hard to crack are like this:
ih342i42394ihi3422m

Slap-your-keyboard passwords, I like to call them 😊
(P.S. That's not mine, for you hackers. 😉)

They say it's best if you make EMAIL passwords like this, because all your other online accounts are linked to your email.

Microsoft is making Hotmail users use storng passwords now. Aka slap-your-keyboard passwords, or passwords that are NOT common words. AKA (crossword)

^ Got info above from a Yahoo! video ^

Deleted • 12 August 2011 at 7:06 PM

Interesting 😊 I'm gonna max my letters although my password is already super long *_* Just not good enough xD

smilies • 12 August 2011 at 7:08 PM

Mine's 10. But I think I'm good xD

Deleted • 12 August 2011 at 7:14 PM

Alright I changed mine and it's like gahh. I need a paper near me so I can type it in xD

ladybugheart • 12 August 2011 at 7:17 PM

There was a site where it told you how long it would take for a computer to crack your password depending on the number of characters, type of characters, how good the computer was, ect. I dunno where it is, though. 😋

whitefall • 12 August 2011 at 7:25 PM

I think it's cool that 12 character slap-your-keyboard passwords take forever to hack into. 😃

cafe • 12 August 2011 at 7:27 PM

Mine is 12 words :'D

whitefall • 12 August 2011 at 7:31 PM

@cafe

WORDS?! Or do you mean characters?!

I think I'm going to make mine 44 characters. =D

cafe • 12 August 2011 at 7:36 PM

Characters, woops XD

And it's another language~

whitefall • 12 August 2011 at 7:36 PM

@cafe

NICE~~

cafe • 12 August 2011 at 7:37 PM

I could never remember that slap the keyboard thing XD

whitefall • 12 August 2011 at 7:38 PM

@cafe

Me either. o-o

crescentfeather • 13 August 2011 at 1:03 AM

ggiszdf;bzuzfblrzb

chatial • 13 August 2011 at 1:27 AM

I knew this.
It definitely helps if your pass is not a real word.
Mine isn't, but it also isn't a slap-your-keyboard pass.
Also, having !'s and &'s and *'s also secure your word better.
Of course, it depends on the hacker and the cookie grabber programs they use.
On Neo awhile back there were a bunch of hackers, and it wasn't even safe for you to go on someone's profile no matter what your pass was.
Really, the only way to be completely safe is not to click offsite links.
And not tell anyone what it is...
You never know who's your friend for a minute then aren't the next.
Just saying(;

crescentfeather • 13 August 2011 at 1:30 AM

@chatial Good advice 😊

!?*#$%^&():;"'{[}]|\+=_-/.>,<`~1234567890 help. 😊

whitefall • 17 August 2011 at 6:31 PM

Bump~~