Indeed 1337ification is normally not considered secure.


--- On Mon, 25/6/12, Tony Firshman <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Tony Firshman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The *ins...
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 15:20

George Gwilt wrote, on 25/Jun/12 14:59 | Jun25:
>
> On 25 Jun 2012, at 14:54, Tony Firshman wrote:
>
>>
>> The moral here is secure passwords, and change regularly.
>> Secure ones are like Ge4?pP9a  .
>
> Hmm! Looks a bit like my grandfather's name.
>
(8-)#

Mine was F0r5hm8n .

... and that is a common method of disguising words, which I am *sure* 
hackers are on to.

The hacked AOL account was probably due to a dictionary word password 
with '16' appended.


Tony


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