You should probably change your password

tynic

eh, frankly it seems like a reasonable tradeoff.

After the rigmarole I had to go through to reset my internet banking password once when I temporarily had a brain blank and entered it wrong three times, a small aneurysm might actually have made me feel better.

Bhow

MereHappenstance wrote:

satansfingers wrote:

my password of biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigcocks seems safe

It must be a bitch to remember.

"Now did I use 13 or 14 i's?"

Each "i" represents an inch.

jackal

He who would trade big aneurysms for small aneurysms deserves neither.

Larlar

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

Edcrab

tynic wrote:

eh, frankly it seems like a reasonable tradeoff.

After the rigmarole I had to go through to reset my internet banking password once when I temporarily had a brain blank and entered it wrong three times, a small aneurysm might actually have made me feel better.

I was once terrified at my state of brainrot this one time I repeatedly inputted my password wrong

And yet I never did figure out whether I had or not, because it transpired that the chip in my card was faulty so it would've likely locked me out no matter what I'd done

tynic

Yeah when I reset all mine recently there was one complicated security thing where it just wouldn't accept my login information. And I'm pretty sure the password was correct, so I'm wondering if there was another issue somewhere. Anyway it's still a very secure one, I was just trying to be thorough.

Also I only googled passwords after I'd successfully changed them, because of that exact paranoia. Nothing came up so I probably didn't need to anyway, but at least my bases are covered.

Aneurhythmia

Larlar wrote:

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

It really isn't.

Edcrab

tynic wrote:

Yeah when I reset all mine recently there was one complicated security thing where it just wouldn't accept my login information. And I'm pretty sure the password was correct, so I'm wondering if there was another issue somewhere. Anyway it's still a very secure one, I was just trying to be thorough.

Also I only googled passwords after I'd successfully changed them, because of that exact paranoia. Nothing came up so I probably didn't need to anyway, but at least my bases are covered.

I'm pretty paranoid about that sort of thing, although my hacks have come about due to doing stupid things like accessing accounts on someone else's old virus-ridden crapheap. Although thinking of security issues and making it accept login information, I recall ebay once picked my favourite sports team as a security question

And later I realised... anyone could have Googled my account name, found my Facebook, and at the time my profile pic had me wearing a shirt for that sports team

Assuming it was combined with an email hijack, whoops that account would have been gone

Fyndir

Larlar wrote:

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

My favourite is the people throwing their passwords at a website that runs it through a check to find out how safe it is.

All I can think of is this.

Abracadaniel

My less-secure throwaway password is apparently part of a stupid texting meme, so it shows up a lot in Google but not as anything revealing about me.

Edcrab

Smart Hero wrote:

My less-secure throwaway password is apparently part of a stupid texting meme, so it shows up a lot in Google but not as anything revealing about me.

"nakedpic.jpeg"

Kolosus

Larlar wrote:

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

Google stealing your passwords seems like a colossal waste of time to me.

Abracadaniel

Edcrab wrote:

Smart Hero wrote:

My less-secure throwaway password is apparently part of a stupid texting meme, so it shows up a lot in Google but not as anything revealing about me.

"nakedpic.jpeg"

oh no!

Peter Ebel

Man, Keypass is the shit, sons and daughters.

Tube

A few months ago someone from here tried super hard over a number of days to break into both my work and private email accounts. They didn't manage it. To be fair I'm pretty sure they were just guessing over and over.

I Win Swordfights

They couldn't have been very smart

dienewtonfaulknerdie isn't hard to figure out

Edcrab

It involves mind games, I'm sure

Ilovehitman2andmorrissey

Quetzi

xoxoTube+Morrissey4evrxoxo

Kolosus

Something about Hellboy cutouts?

Weaver

The moment any sort of implanted identity verification becomes a regular option

man just watch out for christians is all I'm saying here

I Win Swordfights

keithstolemyjoke

this is now the "remember when tube said" thread

Quetzi

Straightzi wrote:

xoxoTube+Morrissey4evrxoxo

Nobody take this it's gonna be my new password too

Druhim

I had to settle for h4xxing tube's driver's license

Abracadaniel

Lewie P's Stepdad wrote:

A few months ago someone from here tried super hard over a number of days to break into both my work and private email accounts. They didn't manage it. To be fair I'm pretty sure they were just guessing over and over.

I felt so silly when I replied to you when I got that PM notice. That's what I get for replying to email right when I wake up.

For reference:



WHY WOULD YOUR NAMED ACCOUNT ALSO BE THE AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION ONE :[

Tossrock

Larlar wrote:

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote:

so.. isn't googling my pw a bad idea? I mean, could my password be compromised that way?

Not really. Especially if you use the ssl version of google at https://www.google.com

The chances of someone hacking Google's query history database is pretty low, and even then, to pull one relevant search containing a password out of an absolutely astronomical dataset would be basically impossible.

Abracadaniel

sudo run get_all_passwords.exe

Irtehmongoose

Tossrock wrote:

The chances of someone hacking Google's query history database is pretty low, and even then, to pull one relevant search containing a password out of an absolutely astronomical dataset would be basically impossible.

The only note to this I can think of is that if you are signed in to Google, it keeps a history of your searches that you can review. Someone getting into your Google account could then look through your search history and possibly see that.

Not that it's particularly likely to happen though, also the history is clearable.

SkyEye

@Tossrock Lemme make sure I got this right: if my password is stronger it gets more difficult to reverse the hash in the event that some database gets cracked and the hashtag list is stolen? And if some website offers a password recovery service in which the original password can be sent to the user then that's a red flag that the site is storing its passwords in plaintext right?

Tossrock

SkyEye wrote:

@Tossrock Lemme make sure I got this right: if my password is stronger it gets more difficult to reverse the hash in the event that some database gets cracked and the hashtag list is stolen? And if some website offers a password recovery service in which the original password can be sent to the user then that's a red flag that the site is storing its passwords in plaintext right?

Basically, yes. Although hashtags (an invention of The Twitters) are not the same as hashes (a concept from computer science)

Abracadaniel

A concept for nerds

Garlic Bread

I Win Swordfights wrote:

keithstolemyjoke

this is now the "remember when tube said" thread

No, he stole my joke.

Framling

I was just poking through my KeePass entries, and found an account with the following requirements:

1. Usernames must contain a number.
2. Passwords contain at least 6 letters
3. Passwords must contain at least one number.
4. Passwords cannot begin or end with a number

Fuckin... what?

Stale

probably an archaic hash requirement

Blake T

Ok with last pass and everything. It seems cool since I only remember one complicated password. But say I'm at a friends place and need to check my email. How do I go about remembering a balls long password?

Tef

It'll save that password in your vault, which you can access from your mate's internet browser and you can copy and paste it in.

I got the paid version, so I can access it on my iphone through the app so that's another option if you need to look up passwords

Tofystedeth

Tossrock wrote:

Larlar wrote:

There's no way I'd ever google any of my passwords to find this out. That's probably half of how they end up on lists to begin with.

autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote:

so.. isn't googling my pw a bad idea? I mean, could my password be compromised that way?

Not really. Especially if you use the ssl version of google at https://www.google.com

The chances of someone hacking Google's query history database is pretty low, and even then, to pull one relevant search containing a password out of an absolutely astronomical dataset would be basically impossible.

And starting about a week or so ago, if you are logged into your google account, it automatically sends you to the ssl version.

Gatsby

You're all forgetting that outsiders can hack Google.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7LfR5Ee2c&feature=player_embedded

L|ama

Edcrab wrote:

What with repurposing GPUs and everything I guess even mundane desktop rigs are becoming more and more adept at cracking passwords

Soon NO ONE WILL BE SAFE

yep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

quantum computers are good at factoring primes and that is something that is important for cryptography and they will probably start doing things sort of soon

Kadith

Gatsby wrote: »

You're all forgetting that outsiders can hack Google.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7LfR5Ee2c&feature=player_embedded

damn look at those toolbars

Tossrock

L|ama wrote:

Edcrab wrote:

What with repurposing GPUs and everything I guess even mundane desktop rigs are becoming more and more adept at cracking passwords

Soon NO ONE WILL BE SAFE

yep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

quantum computers are good at factoring primes and that is something that is important for cryptography and they will probably start doing things sort of soon

I doubt quantum computers will surpass conventional ones for factorization within our lifetime. The challenges in the material science required are tremendous.