We used to have to change our password monthly on the school network, I never forgot a password because I picked an album and each password was a song off of that album.You could use this idea for every different website you register, and if you forget it just work your way through the album. To make a real strong password you could even include the length of the track, and use an obscure album that the songs from would be hard to recognise.
[QUOTE=FPtje;25315456]It's obvious that they would try the most known ones such as facebook and webmail accounts.[/QUOTE]
they have nothing to gain if they access my facebook account
I juse use the name of the website as my pass, for example, if I was doing neopets it'd be..
Neolk
neopets
Great idea! I've been using the same password since 2004, so I think it's about time I get one that's more secure.
According to [url]http://howsecureismypassword.net/[/url]
my old password would take "About 2 hours" to crack.
my other old password would take "About 5 years" to crack.
And my new password would take "About 10 million years" to crack.
My old password used to be the License Number on my permit. But entering, B0123456789 (I don't remember it, so yeah.) always got tiring.
According to that website though, my license number as my password would take 11 years to crack.
"whatwhatinthebutt" would take 3 billion years.
I use tiered passwords. I use three completely different passwords for various things. One is 20 characters long, alphanumeric, with two symbol characters. I use it as a recovery password on my computers and to access my bank account. That's too complex to use regularly, though, so I have a second one for things that could be problematic if hijacked, but not exceptionally so. Regular computer logins, email, Facepunch, Facebook, etc. That's 9 characters long, one symbol, upper and lower case. I have a third password for things that really wouldn't affect me if hijacked. Stuff like my imageshack account. That's eight characters long, also one symbol.
MD5 the website's name and append that to the "base" password!
Sure, you may end up with 20-character long passwords but whatever, they're not [i]that[/i] difficult to remember.
I have about 4 60 character passwords that I use between sites alternating prefixes / suffixes.
I recommend you guys using KeePass, it lets you store your passwords for websites and such(So you can make them fucking long), in case you forget them.
You have to set a password to enter and view your passwords in KeePass(make it really long).There is another way, I didn't really use it, so I don't really know.
Link [url]http://keepass.info/[/url]
I have about 5 passwords, long but easy to remember. But about 2 are the same with slight difference.
I have unique passwords for my most important stuff.
It would take
About 1,609,824 nonillion years
for a desktop PC to crack your password
(My Truecrypt pass :smug:)
Pretty interesting guide, but my passwords are usually mixed with letters, numbers, and characters that resembles nothing.
I only have about 4 passwords and 5 or so usernames that I use for every website. This helps if I forgot my login, I can just guess and check several times as I am bound to get it right.
I also don't like writing my passwords or usernames down so this way I'll never forget an account.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;25317033]My password for:
Steam
Facepunch
Something Awful
Email
Minecraft
and tons of other sites are all different from each other.
I don't actually think of any passwords either. I just open a text file, close my eyes and just sway my hands across the keyboard for 2 to 4 seconds and then I add random capitol letters and more random characters into it.
Incase for whatever reason, whether it be a crash or something, I get logged out of a site, I have all of my login information saved in a master list on a secure USB drive which I almost never use, where I can just copy and paste the password string into the box so I can log in.
(Using this method, just guessing the password would be next to impossible and if you're able to brute force it, it would take fucking years or so before it could be found)
It's a pretty secure method if you ask me.[/QUOTE]
Yea, keeping your passwords to everything in plaintext on a flash drive is indeed secure. :frogdowns:
I use one easy password for unimportant sites, and a hard one for important ones.
All my passwords are names of famous astronauts.
Thanks for the idea OP, since reading this thread I have changed all of my passwords, all of which follow a code.
I use KeePassX with DropBox to access my passwords on my desktop computer(Windows), laptop(Linux) as well as my Galaxy S(Android).
Every single account I use has it's own password, 105bit randomly generated with special characters if allowed. And I've memorized 3 of them that I commonly use.
I have 3 different passwords, 1 for serious accounts, one for accounts on suspicious sites and one for troll accounts.
Take an adjective (Red)
Take a noun (Car)
Take a number (512)
Take the last letter in your site's initials (P for FacePunch)
Take the first letter in your site's initials (F for FacePunch)
(If your site is one word, just take the first and last letters in your site name)
Put the adj., noun, and number, and put them together (RedCar512)
Put the last initial at the beginning, and the last one at the end (PRedCar512F)
Place syllables from the site name into your password. (AcePRedCar512Funch)
Add special characters if you want.
There you go, fairly safe password that is easy to remember. I've been using this system for years now (With different words, of course) and haven't had a single account hacked.
Unless someone else knows your system, all your passwords will look unique and semi-random.
My Facepunch password:
RmL1kLGuylRCjBtX4gsVdV8k0LbQQ7
Hint I changed 3.
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My Facepunch password:
RmL1kLGuylRCjBtX4gsVdV8k0LbQQ7
Hint I changed 3.
[QUOTE=FPtje;25314923]The one for everything else is a potential security risk. Anyone finding out about that one has your login credentials for a lot of sites.[/QUOTE]
Most of which have no actual value what so ever, that and why would anyone ever get access to my passwords, don't say keylogger because then the number of passwords or complexity of them is a moot point
I have three that i use now and then.
delicousfishsticks, werrios56 and gheyrey01
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Fuck, how do i remove the passwords
Got my gmail hacked by some chinese wank, changed my passwords to stuff i have around my pc. try hacking a ~30 char password bitch
Real men use [url=http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html]Diceware[/url].
My passwords generally involve characters from SPongebob
Usually Mr. Krabs or Larry
[url]http://lastpass.com[/url] is the best thing ever
funnily enough, i was playing Uplink earlier and one of the servers that i had trouble trying to break had the password "paswords"
(not fucking kidding)
I have four, which I disperse throughout certain websites I use. I just pick a random one to use, two are kind simple, and the other two are pretty hard to figure out. A site that really isn't that important to me? Simple password. Very important site? Secure passwords.
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