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when you really stop and think about it we live in a depressingly insecure

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unsecure both of them probably world

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chances are the only thing standing between your stuff and a bad guy are

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some very shatter Windows you're only a few feet from hitting another car head

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on when you drive down the street and your private conversations and finances

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are kept safe online by a short string of characters I mean I'm not trying to

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make you feel afraid or paranoid or anything but what I am trying to do is

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highlight the importance of password security many people are unaware that

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simply putting a password on something does not make it all that safe

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especially as lots of commonly used passwords are about as secure as a

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screen door in a hurricane I mean

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obviously passwords like quiry 1 2 3 4

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and the name of your favorite sports team are horrible choices because

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they're incredibly easy to guess but if

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you pick something that's obscure and difficult for someone who doesn't know

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you well to Divine does that necessarily

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even mean that safe well that all

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depends on the way passwords are stored

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secure websites hash your password

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meaning that it is passed through an algorithm that is extremely difficult to

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reverse with the output being what's stored on the server the problem though

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is that because many sites use the same algorithm such as the one in the

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commonly used sha series an attacker can

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run lots of common Andor short passwords

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through the hash quickly and then compare that to Hash password stored on

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a server to see if any of them match and

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even though this can be prevented using a technique called salting which adds a

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random numerical string to your password before running it through a hash many

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secure websites don't bother salting

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meaning it can actually be quite easy for an attacker to guess your password

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with Brute Force which means simply trying as many passwords as they can

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until one works in fact most eight

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character passwords can be cracked in only a couple of days using this method

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with a reasonably powerful modern PC fortunately though the solution is

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actually quite simple you use longer passwords having a pseudo random

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password with just 12 characters instead of eight means it could take thousands

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of years for someone to brute force your password instead of a couple days and if

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they eventually do succeed you'll probably be too dead to care of course

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you also want to make sure that your longer password doesn't incorporate

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other common password mistakes even a

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long password made up of shorter dictionary words or containing repeated

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strings of characters can be vulnerable due to those individual elements being

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easier to guess so while length is probably the most important variable the

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best thing to do is to use long passwords made up of random characters

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including symbols but Luke I guess the

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script was written for him how am I going to remember a huge password with a

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bunch of pound signs and colons in it

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well there are quite a few password manag out there that not only store and

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autofill your passwords but also generate pseudo random passwords quickly

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so you can use a different one for every site just make sure that whichever

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password manager that you're using stores all your passwords with heavy

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encryption including salting and yes

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there is a reason I keep saying pseudo random by the way instead of random

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software random number generators that pump out random passwords can never be

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truly random as they work by performing operations on a small initial number

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called a seed which introduces slight bias for certain characters of course

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for the purposes of creating a secure password this bias is negligible for

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most users so don't worry about that too much because after all in a universe

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where every action has some kind of a consequence can anything be truly

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