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[Dave Rowe]

Confucius say: He who has password stolen, shouldn't make joke about
simple password.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Greg Gerke <ggerke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, apparently I was a bit too subtle. I didn't actually use "password"
> for a password. I'm not my parents. I find that "123456" is much safer.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
>> cracked.com, of all places, has some good suggestions on passwords:
>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/**article_18962_5-things-we-all-**
>> do-that-make-hackers-lives-**incredibly-easy.html<http://www.cracked.com/article_18962_5-things-we-all-do-that-make-hackers-lives-incredibly-easy.html>
>>
>> For password generation, I've taken some tips from that article:
>>
>> 1)    If your favorite song is, say, "Wake Me up Before You Go-Go",
>> abbreviate it to either "WMuBYGG" or perhaps "WaMeupBeYoGoGo".  You can use
>> that as a root word for all your passwords.
>>
>> 2)    Add a suffix to the root depending on exactly what the password is
>> for, such as "homeemail" or "workemail" or "**
>> secretpornsitethewifedoesntkno**wabout".
>>
>> That's pretty uncrackable by virtue of sheer length, yet very memorable to
>> you.  cracked.com advises going a step further, and instead of
>> "homeemail", use a suffix of "fortawesome" or some other unguessable
>> reference that you would get but random hackers would not.  That way, even
>> if someone somehow finds out about "WaMeupBeYoGoGoworkemail", they can't
>> extrapolate and get your home password.  (By that logic, instead of
>> "workemail", maybe you should use a suffix more like "shamepalace".)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Well, crap. Sorry all - some no-good-nik likes my email just as much as I
>>> do. Password is changed now. I guess "password" wasn't the best of
>>> passwords after all...?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  Spam alert!
>>>> On Nov 5, 2012 8:50 PM, "Greg Gerke" <ggerke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  http://107.20.173.250/**CarolynConnects/wordpress/wp-**
>>>> content/plugins/zsliwwqkeeo/**ugoogle.html<http://107.20.173.250/CarolynConnects/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/zsliwwqkeeo/ugoogle.html>
>>>>