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Nov 23, 2009 | 4:00 pm

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Cholula

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Quote:

Originally Posted by colonius

Everybody with a short password (less than eight characters) should be aware that a brute force attack will uncover it in a few hours (total time for yours and any other similar weak password in the system). Since it is a brute force attack, even a password like "gHj87Q" offers no protection. Also, dictionary attacks can be quite successful - how many of you have a common English word or name as a password? Those take minutes.

Thanks for the reminder.

I thought my passwords were fairly complex but you convinced me to rethink that.

I just added very complex passwords for the log-ins at my financial institutions, hotel and airline mileage/point programs and other websites where someone who cracked the password could drain my account.

I'm sure my passwords could still be hacked but they're going to have to work one hell of a lot longer to do so.

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