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Joerg Piringer assembled 25,727 passwords from a Lulzsec hack at 1 per frame. At 25 passwords a second, that’s over 17 minutes of passwords. You can skip around and see if yours made the list but the bits around ‘123456’ go on for quite a while. On a side note, anyone who has 123456 as a password should be banned from the Internet for life. (Via)
It's annoying, but there's a logical reason why sites make you choose a password with a number. This chart puts it into perspective.
Tech Buzz Zone Alarm compiled a list of the most common Passwords and gives advice how to avoid the usual mistakes made when choosing a password. It's an infographic! You love infographics.
The question is not how to control the world, but why? The answer is kind of depressing.
Oh right, because in all my years using the internet I *haven't* yet learned not to type my password into random websites. Good job, howsecureismypassword.net. You've created a valuable resource that no [intelligent] person will ever use.
Scam alert! Delete email attachments claiming to contain your Twitter password.
Tech Buzz Twitter ranking site Twitterank was the big news on Twitter today, until users started worrying about the fact that they'd unquestioningly given it their passwords. It's still not entirely clear whether this was an elaborate hoax, a phishing scam, or just another arbitrary Twitter ranking site, but it's been fun watching everyone scramble to try and figure it out.
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This website calculates how long it would take to crack your password in a brute force attack.
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