Timeline for Why did customer services say using symbols in a password is insecure?
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 10:33 | comment | added | Félix Saparelli | Due to how password lists can be derived, a shorter password repeated isn't that much more secure than the original short password. Use a longer random password instead. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | iProgram | This is the thing, I use a password manager. Because of this, I had to use a shorter password that I had to repeat twice to make it secure (It would have took 15hr to crack but repeating it takes 377bill years to crack). I take the extra measures like that just incase an hacker has powerful hardware, or they have "donated" power which is possible for things like this. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 9:09 | comment | added | DevSolar | A common procedure is to think of a pass phrase, and derive the actual password from it. You remember the phrase, but use a much more cryptic password. "Yesterday night - I had five eggs for breakfast!" --> "Yn-Ih5efb!" | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 7:34 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 7:30 | history | answered | zakius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |