How is this for a strong password? mhluw1bAr1ts
Not bad, huh? I came across a suggestion for generating tough passwords. Take a poem you like. From the opening sentence use the initial letters for each word. The resulting gibberish is safe from brute-force methods. If you change all "i"s or "l"s to "1"s and all "e"s to "3"s (or some-such rule) you'll include numbers. And if you use the poem's line breaks to suggest obvious upper-case letters you have an easy-to-recall and safe password. My example (not my real password obviously!) is extracted from . . . My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : Maybe it's time to review password protocols. The three most popular passwords are: password sex god Not particularly in that order. System administrators love "god' for their password - it gives them a sense of power. The important thing is to have different strong passwords for each internet account. 'You’re Reacting to Celebgate Wrong' https://www.yahoo.com/tech/youre-reacting-to-celebgate-wrong-96522222279.html https://www.yahoo.com/tech/youre-reacting-to-celebgate-wrong-96522222279.html > SAN ANTONIO — Apple store employees in San Antonio contacted Eva Longoria by using her personal account information and broke into her email, the actress said Tuesday... 'Eva Longoria: Apple store employee in San Antonio broke into my email, called me' San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/Eva-Longoria-Apple-store/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Eva-Longoria-Apple-store-employee-in-San-Antonio-5730578.php#photo-6800146 > On 9/2/2014 10:24 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: > It looks like it's over for Apple. Steve Jobs is probably turning over in his grave. Tim Cook should probably resign. This is going to cost Apple billions - they may never recover their reputation. Lesson: Get off the iCloud. "Brute force, also known as 'brute force cracking', is a trial-and-error method used to get plain-text passwords from encrypted data." Read more: Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news//iCloud/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2740034/Kirsten-Dunst-leads-criticism-company-actively-investigates-claims-hundreds-stars-nude-images-stolen-iCloud.html#ixzz3CDcAJ000
