passwords like a pro – part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15th, 2009 by mdwOK it’s a little disappointing that nobody criticized this as being too easy to crack. Someone is supposed to come along and give me the opportunity to follow up by showing how simple it is to tweak this to get really, really, solid passwords. I think the argument goes like this:
basing passwords on domain names of the sites means there are predictable patterns.
Well yes and no is my answer. Suppose you used the letters following or preceding the real letters, like b instead of a, etc? How about using hexadecimal digits for the first 16 alphabet characters? How about starting with pig latin? On so on and so forth. There are as many variants on these example steps as there are thinking people.
Be a password pro! Basing passwords on domain names with extension ensures a unique password for each site.
