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Nov 23, 2009 | 5:19 pm

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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.

I’ve never used words or phrases, just a series of random letters and numbers for website passwords. This may sound like a pain to manage, but there are a number of utilities that can organize passwords securely. I’ve been using PasswordsPlus for several years now, but there are some free ones out there as well, such as a plugin for Firefox I believe.

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