Passwords are like underwear.....

Posted Sunday, November 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM

An interesting article in the eBay "Chatter" http://www.ebaychatter.com/

It describes how underwear should be:

Changed often

Not shared with friends

Not left lying around

Should be mysterious

The longer the better

But the most interesting thing is a chart showing how long it takes to crack a password with different numbers, lower and upper case and combinations of all of the above.

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Something else you can do to add to the complexity of your password is add special characters. !@#$%^&*()<>?, things like that. Some sites may restrict use of those, but when you can use them they help. Every special character you use makes it exponentially more difficult to crack

-- Posted by benjithegreat98 on Mon, Nov 12, 2007, at 7:26 AM

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