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28-11-2015 11:45 |
Re: Just got the SuperHub 3
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Originally Posted by Milambar
(Post 35809886)
That.. does not sound good. I'm a firm believer in that if you make passwords too stupidly complex, then they get written down, thereby nullifying any security.
I've seen studies that purport to prove that simple but easy to remember long passwords are better than shorter overcomplicated passwords that get written down.
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I'm a firm believer that that gives a false sense of security. A wireless hacker doesn't need to see the password you've had to write down. Make it complex and he won't devote the time to it.
Look at it this way, an 8 letter lower case password has 208,827,064,576 different combinations - a huge number but with the right tools won't take long to crack especially now that Amazon has made GPU cloud computing available. Add a capital letter into the mix and the time raises expotentially as it will continue to do with the addition of a number and then a special case - come back in a hunderd years or so for the answer.
Long and memorable passwords are normally a combination of words or a phrase which are ultimately easier to crack.
BTW I've just checked on my low end rig and the 8 letter lower case password would take 52 days maximum to crack the password. |
