Forum » Topic: “Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin... http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 14:24:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php Midfield Diamond on "“Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin..." http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486#post-142928 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:12:22 +0000 Midfield Diamond 142928@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No need for hat-tips, doffing or grovelling, it's just a coincidence, no offence meant I'm sure, or taken. </p> beau-jolly on "“Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin..." http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486#post-142907 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:39:58 +0000 beau-jolly 142907@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great joke Tripe, and nicely written. Not disputing that. It's just that MD beat you to it by just over an hour.<br /> <a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49473">Penultimate Paragraph</a> </p> Tripod on "“Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin..." http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486#post-142902 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:21:38 +0000 Tripod 142902@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or a Guardian article about how simple passwords are easy to crack, but the 'difficult' ones are impossible to remember... and the problems this creates... </p> beau-jolly on "“Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin..." http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486#post-142901 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:17:20 +0000 beau-jolly 142901@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hat tip to Midfield Diamond? Well a complete doff and a low grovelling bow would probably be more appropriate. </p> Tripod on "“Passwords too easy for thieves to crack”, says IT boffin..." http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49486#post-142896 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:47:17 +0000 Tripod 142896@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>“Passwords are a pain”, admits Barry Noakes, head of security at Final Solutions, the well-known business-to-business IT company, “but they’re all that’s standing in the way of a hacker getting access to your precious data. So don’t just use ‘12345678’ or ‘ABCDEFGH’, or ‘password’ or your own name. That’s like handing a thief your front door key and saying you’ll be out for a couple of hours. Make it hard for hackers by using numbers, upper and lower case letters and punctuation marks to create an uncrackable password. Then, so you won’t forget it, write it on a Post-It note and stick it on your computer screen”... </p>