Luc2k Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 These "it would take bla bla years for a desktop PC to crack your password" sites are total crap. They never bother to specify the components of that "PC", and even if they did, the numbers would still be coming out of somebody's ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewarmslime Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Enron, on 21 Jan 2015 - 02:59, said: My password is "incorrect" so I get a nice reminder in case I ever forget. I loled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I changed mine to admin as its not on the list DConnell 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John. Subscriber¹ Posted January 21, 2015 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 21, 2015 Untitled.jpg My worst (and password for Neowin et al): Your password would be cracked almost Instantly COMMON PASSWORD: IN THE TOP 3600 MOST USED PASSWORDS My new "common" password: It would take a desktop PC about 275 days to crack your password My Strongest: It would take a desktop PC about 37 years to crack your password Using that website mine would take 38 Quadrillion years to crack. A nice way of secure but simple passwords is to use nonsensical phrases that are easy to remember, like honeybadgerboobmonkey or something like that, or jeremyclarksonhascurlyhair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Untitled.jpg My worst (and password for Neowin et al): Your password would be cracked almost Instantly COMMON PASSWORD: IN THE TOP 3600 MOST USED PASSWORDS My new "common" password: It would take a desktop PC about 275 days to crack your password My Strongest: It would take a desktop PC about 37 years to crack your password its a good job the NSA/GCHQ do not use "desktop computers" to crack passwords then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2015 My password is chadwardenforpresident Glad to see it's not appearing on the worst password list. dvb2000 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvb2000 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 So apparently no one is listening because year after year people still keep using dumb-ass passwords. Just the usual "so called" experts who think everyone should be using triple factor biometic authentication (that their companies is happy to sell you), and entering a userid/password with a 50 trillion possibly combinations to turn on a light switch, the the users couldn't give a rats arse about entering a password, but has been forced to in order to proceed. Ghostdraconi 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 As much as I agree, what do you use to "remember" these random passwords? If I'm at work, and I need to log into my personal accounts, I won't have access to 1Password (or cellphone for that matter). I'm quite curious if mine is. Since moving to LastPass for password management I do not log into any sites like Neowin from work anymore, not that it matters, between being super busy and my phone don't bother with it on the work PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 its a good job the NSA/GCHQ do not use "desktop computers" to crack passwords then. Yep, we use tablets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinggus Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Since moving to LastPass for password management I do not log into any sites like Neowin from work anymore, not that it matters, between being super busy and my phone don't bother with it on the work PC So I can log in via website to grab my info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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