Passwords?
Dream?
Ingredients of the same. Why yes, William, I suppose that is what I will blog about tonight as I recover from Wedd-eating (unrelated activity and no not what I had for supper!).
Lately, I have run into many situations where a password has been the focus of much stress and frustration.
Most recently a friend of mine (lets call him Josh)- (no wait lets call him Joe- it was Josh by the way but lets not upset him). Anyway "Joe" had a problem with Wow and I was trying to sort it out when Wow informed him that because his password was too easy they were locking his account.
What?
What is Wow?
Wow.
Wow is an Internet term for the ACRONYM WOW which is World of Warcraft. See Reference here:
WORLD OF WARCARFT EXPLAINED (warning very sexy voice)
and mostly not this:
Not WOW but close
ANYWAY.
The thing that happened is that Joe had chosen a simple password and number combination which is pretty easy to crack as this site will let you know.
How Secure is My Password Fool!
If you are curious his password was...well I am not telling you that but it was like this Richards79 (Reed Richards that is)
So I had to come up with a better password.
Now the reason I come up with this is- This is a warning to you guys with the simple my wife's body measurements plus her anniversary date - no I meant our wedding anniversary honey don't make me sleep on the couch again dear guys.
If Blizzard is going to make it's players change their dumb passwords then other game companies will follow suit and so will your banks, webmail and porn sites (yes I know that there is at least one of you who still thinks he has to pay to see porn on the internet).
Which reminds me of this entirely raunchy show tune (if you are under age or have virgin ears do not look this one up on You Tube- it's from Avenue Q. Since I fear my mother, I will NOT be posting a link to that.
The Advice:
Passwords can be strong in two ways.
1. Be Cryptic. What is Cryptic? Well it isn't like this:
Cryptic passwords are like this P@sZW04Ds with simples, different caps, numbers instead of letters and the like.
Dream?
Ingredients of the same. Why yes, William, I suppose that is what I will blog about tonight as I recover from Wedd-eating (unrelated activity and no not what I had for supper!).
Lately, I have run into many situations where a password has been the focus of much stress and frustration.
Most recently a friend of mine (lets call him Josh)- (no wait lets call him Joe- it was Josh by the way but lets not upset him). Anyway "Joe" had a problem with Wow and I was trying to sort it out when Wow informed him that because his password was too easy they were locking his account.
What?
What is Wow?
Wow.
Wow is an Internet term for the ACRONYM WOW which is World of Warcraft. See Reference here:
WORLD OF WARCARFT EXPLAINED (warning very sexy voice)
and mostly not this:
Not WOW but close
ANYWAY.
The thing that happened is that Joe had chosen a simple password and number combination which is pretty easy to crack as this site will let you know.
How Secure is My Password Fool!
If you are curious his password was...well I am not telling you that but it was like this Richards79 (Reed Richards that is)
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| Sorry Reed, too easy |
Now the reason I come up with this is- This is a warning to you guys with the simple my wife's body measurements plus her anniversary date - no I meant our wedding anniversary honey don't make me sleep on the couch again dear guys.
If Blizzard is going to make it's players change their dumb passwords then other game companies will follow suit and so will your banks, webmail and porn sites (yes I know that there is at least one of you who still thinks he has to pay to see porn on the internet).
Which reminds me of this entirely raunchy show tune (if you are under age or have virgin ears do not look this one up on You Tube- it's from Avenue Q. Since I fear my mother, I will NOT be posting a link to that.
The Advice:
Passwords can be strong in two ways.
1. Be Cryptic. What is Cryptic? Well it isn't like this:
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| Hello Kiddies |
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| Who Knew? |
Or like this guys
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| here it a hint |
Cryptic passwords are like this P@sZW04Ds with simples, different caps, numbers instead of letters and the like.
Just don't get too cryptic like using characters not found on standard keyboards since (duh) you may need to use a standard keyboard to enter that password.
2. Make them long. Longer the better. Lonk like Thisisn'tmypasswordsodon'ttryit
the only problem with this method is some sites are not upto speed on password security and make you have a pin which can be as short as 4 characters.
As this exercise is wearing me out I will leave you with this last thought.
Don't feel secure in sites that employ the anti spam generator that makes you look at this grapbel text document and guess at those characters before letting you in. They are frustrating and apparently very easy to track/hack with a digital camera.
Also if you are going to take my advice write the password down before you change it. Since most of you guys have no short term memory to start with. Once you got it memorized crumple up the paper and feed it to your wife (husband) and tell him that was cheesecake. If your cooking is like mine he/she will never notice!
And that is life according to Mike!
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