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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:09 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm not sure if one can convert that to NSA time or not. o_O The |
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>> password contains upper/lower case letters, couple symbols from up top |
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>> of the number keys and several numbers. None of which anyone would be |
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>> able to guess in any way. They have nothing to do with that list of |
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>> things not to use, birthdays etc. If a person was trying to just guess |
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>> it, even a best friend who knows me extremely well, they would not be |
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>> able to guess it much less the order of it. The only bad thing, it |
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>> isn't to easy to type. Of course, a really good password usually isn't |
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>> so . . . |
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> And do you use that password on only a single site? |
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> If you use it on more than one, then as soon as one of those sites is |
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> compromised it will sniff your password and then your password can be |
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> used on all the others without any cpu cycles wasted on brute-forcing |
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> it at all. |
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> That is the weakness of random passwords. Unless you use some kind of |
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> password manager you won't actually use a unique password on each site |
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> due to difficulty with memorization... |
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Right now, I'm coming up with a master password for LastPass and maybe a |
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new set of keys. I may use something different for my keys to your |
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point. My encryption thingy broke on Seamonkey, the keys are broken |
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somehow. I googled, tried some stuff but can't figure out how to fix |
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them so I revoked the things and am going to start fresh. Heck, only |
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one person ever uses them anyway. lol |
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Once I get logged into LastPass, I generate unique passwords with it for |
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each site. Depending on the site, I try to generate as long and use as |
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many characters as the site will allow. If it allows the symbols on top |
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of the number keys, I enable them. If it doesn't, I cut that off. If |
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it allows 20 characters, I set it to generate 20. It's not like I have |
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to remember it or even type it in either. I may as well be as secure |
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and random as possible. The master password is the current project tho. |
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Way back, I used to have three passwords. One fairly secure one for |
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financial type sites, one somewhat decent one for stuff like social |
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sites and one I could care less about. None of them would be easy to |
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guess but the complexity changed. Nowadays, I wouldn't even dream of |
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doing like that. Far to many script kiddys out there trying to steal |
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stuff. That doesn't even mention the pros and what they do. |
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You are right tho, reusing passwords is a really bad idea. It makes it |
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dead simple to hack everything else. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |