when you really stop and think about it we live in a depressingly insecure
unsecure both of them probably world
chances are the only thing standing between your stuff and a bad guy are
some very shatter Windows you're only a few feet from hitting another car head
on when you drive down the street and your private conversations and finances
are kept safe online by a short string of characters I mean I'm not trying to
make you feel afraid or paranoid or anything but what I am trying to do is
highlight the importance of password security many people are unaware that
simply putting a password on something does not make it all that safe
especially as lots of commonly used passwords are about as secure as a
screen door in a hurricane I mean
obviously passwords like quiry 1 2 3 4
and the name of your favorite sports team are horrible choices because
they're incredibly easy to guess but if
you pick something that's obscure and difficult for someone who doesn't know
you well to Divine does that necessarily
even mean that safe well that all
depends on the way passwords are stored
secure websites hash your password
meaning that it is passed through an algorithm that is extremely difficult to
reverse with the output being what's stored on the server the problem though
is that because many sites use the same algorithm such as the one in the
commonly used sha series an attacker can
run lots of common Andor short passwords
through the hash quickly and then compare that to Hash password stored on
a server to see if any of them match and
even though this can be prevented using a technique called salting which adds a
random numerical string to your password before running it through a hash many
secure websites don't bother salting
meaning it can actually be quite easy for an attacker to guess your password
with Brute Force which means simply trying as many passwords as they can
until one works in fact most eight
character passwords can be cracked in only a couple of days using this method
with a reasonably powerful modern PC fortunately though the solution is
actually quite simple you use longer passwords having a pseudo random
password with just 12 characters instead of eight means it could take thousands
of years for someone to brute force your password instead of a couple days and if
they eventually do succeed you'll probably be too dead to care of course
you also want to make sure that your longer password doesn't incorporate
other common password mistakes even a
long password made up of shorter dictionary words or containing repeated
strings of characters can be vulnerable due to those individual elements being
easier to guess so while length is probably the most important variable the
best thing to do is to use long passwords made up of random characters
including symbols but Luke I guess the
script was written for him how am I going to remember a huge password with a
bunch of pound signs and colons in it
well there are quite a few password manag out there that not only store and
autofill your passwords but also generate pseudo random passwords quickly
so you can use a different one for every site just make sure that whichever
password manager that you're using stores all your passwords with heavy
encryption including salting and yes
there is a reason I keep saying pseudo random by the way instead of random
software random number generators that pump out random passwords can never be
truly random as they work by performing operations on a small initial number
called a seed which introduces slight bias for certain characters of course
for the purposes of creating a secure password this bias is negligible for
most users so don't worry about that too much because after all in a universe
where every action has some kind of a consequence can anything be truly
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