cfmwarren

February 16, 2009 at 12:04pm

I use Truecrypt mentioned in a earlier article, so i have a 20 digit passcode AND the windows password that is 11 digits. Memners of my family are notorious password keepers, but i can imagine the rest of America doing this......

winmaster

February 15, 2009 at 4:48pm

I use the same password for everything. It is ***********. (You didn't think I'd actually post it, did you?) And while its not 20 characters or random, it gets the job done. At least its not "password". (I know several people with that password, and they all live in my house.)

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

cmichael

February 15, 2009 at 11:07am

micr0$0ft $uk$

Svetty Parabols

February 15, 2009 at 8:28am

NEVER keep anything on it that you wouldn't want to share with people. Memory sticks are cheap. Save your sensitive data to them and just use the computer to run the software. Hackers cant break into something not connected to your computer.

Justin.Kerr

February 15, 2009 at 7:21am

"1,2,3,4,5??? That Amazing. Thats The Same Combination On My Luggage!"

Keith E. Whisman

February 15, 2009 at 2:58am

I like my passwords they are peoples names and birthdays. It's impossible to use a dictionary attack against a name with a seemingly random set of numbers. Sure as far as secure passwords go my way is a medium level of security but it will stop all hackers that don't go into my system and delete my password or use keyloggers but then again there are no passwords that can fool a keylogger or someone that gets into your system files and mucks around at lower levels of your OS.

Cadmium

February 14, 2009 at 5:19pm

I wanted to post the link from the article, but the url was just too obnixously long.

Srsly needs fixed

I Jedi

February 14, 2009 at 5:32pm

Arg, I wish the editor of this article would of included a link/paragraph explaining how to make better passwords, etc. Please visit here and read this article: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/create.mspx 

 Careful not to make passwords that are way too hard to remember, or too easy to guess, etc. The article above will explain how to make a good, strong password for yourself. And please, don't use a password generator. Although it may spit out a good combination of characters, you're not going to remember it by heart more than likely. Oh, AND PRACTICE good online safety. Never give out your passwords to anyone you DONT TRUST... including your friends. Try writing your passwords down or putting them onto CD, rather than saving them to your HDD. Then, store said passwords on CD/paper somewhere safe in your house where only you will ever know where it truly is. That, however, is taking it to extremes, but there are times when some passwords are just that important to keep safe.

In the end, the best way to save your password is in your head. So, again, remember a combination you can remember and that you know to be strong and secure.

**EDIT**

 Don't think for a second that you're going to be secure 100%. Only the foolish ever believe that. But by making a harder to break password, you're ensuring that you have at least a better measure of security than you did before when you just used "QWERTY". BruteForce always start off with common shit first before moving onto harder to guess passwords.The more characters you have in your password, the harder it is for BruteForce to break it. But again, that all depends how you setup your password and don't make something ridiclous that you can't even remember, then what's the point? 

airman0

February 14, 2009 at 4:28pm

  Other users, who apparently don’t rate their mathematical ability highly, chose to steer clear of numbers and settled for passwords such as “AZERTY” and “QWERTY”.

 

lol 

one of my old passwords was unicorn (no one would ever guess that!)