Post by faskew on Apr 22, 2018 8:17:31 GMT -5
OK, as far as I can tell everyone can view 4 free articles per month on Wired. If you want to view more than that, you have to pay $20 per year. So here's a link to an interesting article about passwords. So many passwords have been stolen over the last few years, researchers have a very large pool of data to work with, and they can see what the most common passwords are. At least in the stolen passwords. Many of these were easy to steal because the sites did not require a mix of letters, digits, and special symbols, so the results are skewed toward the low-hanging-fruit of the password world.
When I first began visiting cyberspace, I used password groups that had a sequence that I could easily remember. For example, tank guns of WW2. German MKIV tanks began with 75L24 guns, then moved up to 75L43, then 75L48, etc. (75 was the size of the barrel or shell,(75mm) and 24 was the length of the barrel (24 cm). As passwords were required to be longer and have more variety over the years, I began using words from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, mixed with digits and special characters. A nice word like, "macehualtin", mixed in with digits and special characters to become "maCeh8ua^ltin" is basically an unbreakable password, but easy for me to remember. I use patterns, so, in this case, the 3 character is always capitalized, the 6th character is always a number, and the ninth character is always a special symbol. Of course, none of this matters so long as private companies and government agencies continue to store their passwords in encrypted databases. Grrrr.
Anyway, here's the article.
www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-people-make-their-password-dragon/
When I first began visiting cyberspace, I used password groups that had a sequence that I could easily remember. For example, tank guns of WW2. German MKIV tanks began with 75L24 guns, then moved up to 75L43, then 75L48, etc. (75 was the size of the barrel or shell,(75mm) and 24 was the length of the barrel (24 cm). As passwords were required to be longer and have more variety over the years, I began using words from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, mixed with digits and special characters. A nice word like, "macehualtin", mixed in with digits and special characters to become "maCeh8ua^ltin" is basically an unbreakable password, but easy for me to remember. I use patterns, so, in this case, the 3 character is always capitalized, the 6th character is always a number, and the ninth character is always a special symbol. Of course, none of this matters so long as private companies and government agencies continue to store their passwords in encrypted databases. Grrrr.
Anyway, here's the article.
www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-people-make-their-password-dragon/