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k_mihai
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« on: January 15, 2008, 16:17:41 PM »

Since no one bothered to explain here what that means, and not all people know IT or grew in a country where 70% of programs are hacked, like me, i decided to explain what strong pass means, to avoid some of the future problems.

Well, strong passwords must be random, combining number, letters, and special characters, and long, over 6 keys (because hacker use programs who look for patterns, pattern meaning smth like 123 or qwer, or words etc, the bigger the number of keys, more complicated will be to deduce the combination). Usually they should look like "#sR53Kd7". 

And they should be changed  if one feels that he risks being hacked (because in theory, they can be cracked, if the hacker is willing to wait for the program to compute all possibilities until it finds the right one - high sensitive networks are not connected to internet or they have strong firewalls).   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength

(is funny that in one of the wiki`s articles, one can even find a link to the dictionaries used by the hacking programs)

for spyware, install a good firewall (that`s why companies have firewall which forbids, for example, access to installed messengers, to avoid data theft)

aaa, and keep the pass secret
 
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Naylrod
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2008, 16:19:58 PM »


for spyware, install a good firewall
 

Or use a Mac.  *Smiley*
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k_mihai
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2008, 16:21:13 PM »

or, don`t use IE *Grin*
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2008, 16:21:53 PM »

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Or use a Mac.  *Smiley*

i have mac *Grin*
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k_mihai
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2008, 16:54:00 PM »

yes, but if the pass was weak...

they even left u with the romanian flag *sad*
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 17:29:17 PM »

yes, useing a complicated password is very efective...

I count 26 letter + 26 caps letters + 10 numbers + (I dont know how many special characters exist) so I used 15 in my calculations

a password with 6 characters will be very hard to brake.

77C1 * 77C1 * 77C1 * 77C1 * 77C1 * 77C1 = 77^6 = 2,084 * 10^11 or 208.422.380.100,0 possibilities. a hell of a work to decode!  *stop*

unhappilly is not so hard!  *pardon*
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k_mihai
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2008, 17:35:18 PM »

use 8, is better, more possibilities (even those can be broken after 1 month, or smth like that...)
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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2008, 17:37:34 PM »

after a month??  *freak* *freak* *freak* whos the freak that spends a month trying to brake my password?  *Shocked* I know what I would do to that guy...  *sad*
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k_mihai
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2008, 17:38:41 PM »

that`s why is better to be longer, so that no one will bother to try  *Grin*
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2008, 20:42:10 PM »

My password is over 10 letters long (not saying precisely how many  *Tongue*) and combines letters and numbers. Feeling mostly safe  *Smiley*

Then again, I'm starting to feel paranoid... Maybe I should change?  Huh?
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Naylrod
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2008, 20:59:32 PM »

My password is over 10 letters long (not saying precisely how many  *Tongue*) and combines letters and numbers. Feeling mostly safe  *Smiley*

Then again, I'm starting to feel paranoid... Maybe I should change?  Huh?

I wild guess on your pass: polymeron1
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k_mihai
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« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2008, 21:15:30 PM »

mine combines letters numbers and special characters *Tongue*
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2008, 21:20:17 PM »

Duuuudes, dont be paranoid  *Grin*

my password is just my name and nobody has ever hacked me for a year, how else am I supposed to remember it when I try to log in and I am drunk  *Grin* *Grin* *Grin*
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Liera
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« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2008, 21:22:44 PM »

ASCII codes are fun to use as password but takes time to type -.-

like what I'm doing now since my spacebar isn't working and I didn't have time to buy new kb today *Embarrassed* *Embarrassed* *Embarrassed*
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k_mihai
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« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2008, 21:25:47 PM »

Duuuudes, dont be paranoid  *Grin*

my password is just my name and nobody has ever hacked me for a year, how else am I supposed to remember it when I try to log in and I am drunk  *Grin* *Grin* *Grin*

no one dares to hack all ur accounts *Tongue* now, being serious, when one sees that smth like that happen and it repeats itself, is good to be cautious...

ASCII codes are fun to use as password but takes time to type -.-

like what I'm doing now since my spacebar isn't working and I didn't have time to buy new kb today *Embarrassed* *Embarrassed* *Embarrassed*
   

don`t worry  *rose*
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