REcently had to change a password, which reminded me of my constant amazement that more people don't use acronyms to form personally memorable, but not obvious passwords, which can be extremely resilient in length.
Letter component:
Personality: I love bacon more than anything else in the world, except beer: ilbmtaeitweb
All girls are lying scum who take you for everything they can get then boff your best friend: agalswtyfetcgtbybf
Hang gliding is the purest bliss in the world: hgitpbitw
I love my partner with everything I am, and I would die for my kids: ilmpweiaaiwdfmk
Potitics: Free handouts are killing our country, killing job creation, killing personal motivation, ambition, and success: fhakockjckpmaas
Gays are human, sexual, loving, family, marriage is their right: gahslfmitr
Bush took us down the sink and Obama isn't helping: btudtsaoih
Religion: The Lord is my shepard I shall not want: tlimsisnw
there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet: tingbaamihp
in the beginning was the big bang, biochemical evolution arose from physics, and now the universe sees itself: itbwtbbbeafpantusi
Pop culture: A Song Of Ice And Fire, A Game of Thrones: asoiafagot
The Empire Strikes Back, Bladerunner, Alien, The Matrix, Avatar: tesbbatma
Mad Men, Dexter, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Generation Kill: mmdtbbtmfgk
Number/Symmbol component:
symbols can be constricted, but if you have free reign, you can do emoticons and ascii art: =p :x =) =^-^= (#_0) (o(O_O) >_<
As for numbers, birth dates are obviously right out. If you are into number symbolism, then you could go with things like 0 for everything, 123 for the Holy Trinity, 4 for the number of the physical world, 6, 8 and 9 if you are into Chinese numerology, 7 if you are into western mythology concepts of the divine and moving between worlds.
Or you could go for memorable dates or years that are more personally known. The date, or the age you were when you lost your virginity. Or went through some other life altering event. The number of trees in your yard: 4, and the number of stories on your house: 2, the number of rooms in your house: 6, the number of cars your family owns: 2. Numbers that mean something to you, relate to each other, tell a hidden story about yourself.
Anyway when I can guess my Dad's password immediately and first try, when asked by an official... people just aren't thinking things through enough.
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My old password at work was my dog's name with an @ replacing an A and with a capital T to start, followed by r00r00r00 (those are zeroes). The roos represent how her barks sound (she barks a lot, so I call her Roo sometimes, she actually responds to it at this point).
Your dog barked in binary?
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
lolgaxe wrote:
Your dog barked in binary?
After the last round of Anonymous/LulzSec hacks over the summer, I opted to start changing passwords for the majority of my websites. They may not all be too hard to guess, but at least they're all different now, which is better than before.
Pr0fession@lNovel1st
There you go, no one will ever crack that one for you.
There you go, no one will ever crack that one for you.
Admiral Lubriderm wrote:
Pr0fession@lNovel1st
There you go, no one will ever crack that one for you.
There you go, no one will ever crack that one for you.
Yeah, I stopped pretending when I started up graduate school.
I was just having fun. Please don't ever give up your dream, even if it is really just a hobby for now.
My new dream is to be a CIO making 100K/year.
At that salary, I can afford to have a ghost writer do all the work.
Edited, Sep 22nd 2011 12:12pm by catwho
At that salary, I can afford to have a ghost writer do all the work.
Edited, Sep 22nd 2011 12:12pm by catwho
I just use the combination on my luggage.
12345?
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I pick words and convert them to numerical (like a telephone keypad). If it requires both numerical and alpha, I only convert some letters.
Donate. One day it could be your family.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
lolgaxe wrote:
12345?
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
I pick words and convert them to numerical (like a telephone keypad). If it requires both numerical and alpha, I only convert some letters.
Sweetums wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
I pick words and convert them to numerical (like a telephone keypad). If it requires both numerical and alpha, I only convert some letters.
Donate. One day it could be your family.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
The point is that I don't want to remember all of those funky symbols. I'm not really afraid of hackerz all after my Blackboard or whatever other CMS the professor prefers (there are several and the passwords and usernames are all pretty much mutually exclusive). I'd rather just have some simple leetspeak word that I don't have to change every 3 months.
I guess the one thing I really like about math professors is that they don't bother with anything like Blackboard. All of their homepages resemble Geocities circa 1996 but without the animated GIFs.
Edited, Sep 23rd 2011 9:33am by Sweetums
I guess the one thing I really like about math professors is that they don't bother with anything like Blackboard. All of their homepages resemble Geocities circa 1996 but without the animated GIFs.
Edited, Sep 23rd 2011 9:33am by Sweetums
Do they have little "Under Construction" logos plastered all over them and links to Alta Vista?
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
POL ID is superior password. 
Dear people I don't like: 凸(â—´―｀â—)凸
Sweetums wrote:
What annoys me are the sites that only support some special characters, but require you to use them. They aaaall have their own little subset that they use so you have to remember endless permutations of the same password. These are for accounts that aren't important, but still necessary, so I like to keep them similar. I'm much more cautious with bank and email passwords, but I don't think it'll kill me if my password for Blackboard is simple and unchanging.
What annoys me is the frightening number of banks which still don't allow the use of *any* special characters (just numbers and letters). It's just pretty amazing that a random online video game may complain at me if I use a password that isn't "strong", but my bank will complain at me if I use one that is "too strong". You'd think it should be the other way around.
Thankfully, some banking institutions allow the use of SecureID, so that's at least a step in the right direction (assuming you got yours replaced recently btw and if you haven't get your *** moving).
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
Years ago many local bars got a video trivia game set up in them. It was online so you could play against people around the country. In order to preserve high scores and ranking it would generate a password you would use each time to login.
I've used that code for most of my passwords for, like, a decade.
Hell, I use it for ZAM.
P.S. I know it is in one's best interest to change passwords on occasion, but hey, it's never been compromised.
I've used that code for most of my passwords for, like, a decade.
Hell, I use it for ZAM.
P.S. I know it is in one's best interest to change passwords on occasion, but hey, it's never been compromised.
remorajunbao wrote:
One day I'm going to fly to Canada and open the curtains in your office.
I use the same password for everything. It's "password".
Love,
PunkFloyd
PunkFloyd
lolgaxe wrote:
12345?
That sounds like some asshole's luggage code.
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
12345?
That sounds like some asshole's luggage code.
Edit: Blagh. Stupid embedding disabled by request. Who does that?
Edited, Sep 24th 2011 10:01pm by IDrownFish
Friar Bijou wrote:
Years ago many local bars got a video trivia game set up in them. It was online so you could play against people around the country. In order to preserve high scores and ranking it would generate a password you would use each time to login.
I like this one better.
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