On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:05, William Ehrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > How long would it take to try 20 wrong passwords to get into your bank > account or whatever? Try it. > > Phishing, especially spear phishing, works better.
I don't think anyone is going to break into a bank account by attacking the front door. Not using "password" or your birthday protects against that anyway. Complex passwords are for protecting against the situation where the bank's salted password database is stolen and the attacker starts to brute force each hash. Though most banks probably just store it plaintext anyway. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
