Which leads to my pet peeve for movies when the password for a secure site is always an easily discoverable word (with no special characters). Unfortunately, even the BBC Sherlock Holmes did this. But working for the government, you have to come up with long passwords using special characters, punctuation, capitals and numbers. (I don’t think this is a state secret.)
XKCD has a couple good takes on password strength and password security.(If you’re not familiar with XKCD, hover your cursor over the strip for a second punchline.)
naturally_easy over 12 years ago
Doh! Now I have to come up with a new password!
Kvasir42 Premium Member over 12 years ago
Which leads to my pet peeve for movies when the password for a secure site is always an easily discoverable word (with no special characters). Unfortunately, even the BBC Sherlock Holmes did this. But working for the government, you have to come up with long passwords using special characters, punctuation, capitals and numbers. (I don’t think this is a state secret.)
Skarlett Premium Member over 12 years ago
In this case, he found it easier to just name the pet after his password.
libbydog over 12 years ago
ha ha! I use the same password for everything except the bank (I have a bad memory and even lost my list once when had multiple passwords!)
Perkycat over 12 years ago
The dog’s name again? – how do you pronounce that?
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Perkycat… It’s Exyooell-fiveviare-poundemessatepercent.It’s easier than it looks cos the exclamation point isn’t part of it.Hope that helps.
RonaldDavis over 12 years ago
Weak! No lower case characters.
CoBass over 12 years ago
XKCD has a couple good takes on password strength and password security.(If you’re not familiar with XKCD, hover your cursor over the strip for a second punchline.)
tegm over 12 years ago
HAHAHAHAHA