Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for August 26, 2015

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And it changes every few days and can’t be one of your previous 10 passwords

All the silly rules some companies make up for passwords – all they do is make it impossible to remember and none of those rules add a shred of extra security.

Except for one rule. Generally, the longer your password is, the more secure it is. Yet some companies put a limit on how long a password can be.

One of my passwords from the 1990’s was based on the fact that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927: baseball:Ruth60HR1927. That was decades ago and I still remember it, and it’s still a darn good password. That is, until I just spilled the beans.

Hey Bugsy…put on your gold neck chain and oversized hoodie!

If he forgot his, he’ll have to go home and wait for the mail tomorrow.

Along with a symbol and a weird animal noise that can’t be typed using the keyboard that came with the computer.

If they were smart, it would be three tries and then locked out.

Brute force attacks do not blink at mixed case, punctuation, numbers or anything else. Only length matters. An 8 character password takes several seconds to crack.