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Jul 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
What is the relevance of the "professionalism" of the look of his webpage? The guy programs in assembly language, he isn't an "artist." Let's see AmberMac and her folks write low-level hardware software? (Nothing against artists, they just have different skills than programmers and vice versa.) Would a "pretty site" make you feel more secure?
Or, get it via a computer on another network. Or cut it at some point in the middle and paste it at the beginning. Or remove one character at random and replace it. Tin foil hats. And people call Gibson a kook.
As usual, Gibson's site is all snake oil for people who want to think they're secure.Think about it. If you actually need a strong random password, you're not going to go getting it off someone's web site. You'll probably use a real, client-side key generator, something along the lines of PuTTYgen.
Because its psychology. People using repetitious typing as a password will hit a lot of e's. Also, people will use certain numbers more, certain combinations more, etc. I'm just pointing out that we're all susceptible to those patterns. A well setup rules file on a password cracker exploits these patterns. And, while you may deviate some from them, it still increases the likelihood of being cracked.It's like those posters above who think they're being smart using "patterns" and shapes on their keyboards. Every conceivable pattern has already been copied into a dictionary file, and those passwords are easily cracked. They are also easily exploitable with an "over the shoulder" attack.Some other posters here have the "nobody cares about your password" attitude. No, that means "they" don't care. There are many many people who do care about hotmail and ICQ passwords, not just banks. Personal communication forums are great ways to exploit someone's privacy and get even more information. Most identity thieves who don't go directly to your bank account will daisy chain around from one service to another to another to another, exploiting bits of info they find at each, trying repeat passwords (or having services remail passwords once they have one of your emails).The only people who don't care are just those who haven't been victimized yet.
Closed AccountJul 31, 2006
What is the relevance of the "professionalism" of the look of his webpage? The guy programs in assembly language, he isn't an "artist." Let's see AmberMac and her folks write low-level hardware software? (Nothing against artists, they just have different skills than programmers and vice versa.) Would a "pretty site" make you feel more secure?
softwarebookFeb 15, 2012
I dislike it too, to create a strong, random and pronounceable password, this one is better: http://passwordsgenerator.net/
Closed AccountJul 31, 2006
Or, get it via a computer on another network. Or cut it at some point in the middle and paste it at the beginning. Or remove one character at random and replace it. Tin foil hats. And people call Gibson a kook.
yahoofromJul 31, 2006
Hey guys, just throw dice.
Closed AccountJul 31, 2006
This is overkill. Any password over 9 characters with numbers and symbols will do.
invinciblechunkJul 31, 2006
As usual, Gibson's site is all snake oil for people who want to think they're secure.Think about it. If you actually need a strong random password, you're not going to go getting it off someone's web site. You'll probably use a real, client-side key generator, something along the lines of PuTTYgen.
nitetripJul 31, 2006
I've been typing for over 25 years and have never used a non-qwerty keyboard
jeriqoJul 31, 2006
And how is the attacker supposed to know I like putting "e"s in my password ?
ikioiAug 1, 2006
Because its psychology. People using repetitious typing as a password will hit a lot of e's. Also, people will use certain numbers more, certain combinations more, etc. I'm just pointing out that we're all susceptible to those patterns. A well setup rules file on a password cracker exploits these patterns. And, while you may deviate some from them, it still increases the likelihood of being cracked.It's like those posters above who think they're being smart using "patterns" and shapes on their keyboards. Every conceivable pattern has already been copied into a dictionary file, and those passwords are easily cracked. They are also easily exploitable with an "over the shoulder" attack.Some other posters here have the "nobody cares about your password" attitude. No, that means "they" don't care. There are many many people who do care about hotmail and ICQ passwords, not just banks. Personal communication forums are great ways to exploit someone's privacy and get even more information. Most identity thieves who don't go directly to your bank account will daisy chain around from one service to another to another to another, exploiting bits of info they find at each, trying repeat passwords (or having services remail passwords once they have one of your emails).The only people who don't care are just those who haven't been victimized yet.