Can Your password be Cracked? Lets Find Out...

Is PassWord safe? Is my phone number safe? That is common. Is my name safe? Well NO!! To be truly safe you need much more. The point of this post is to create an unbreakable password. I think I have found a way to create and remember a 31 character password. First, you need to create a phrase you'll remember like...

pam never forgot her phone number and address.

PmnfGothPnAa1674913553436

Now you need to create random characters and insert them into the password. for instance.

& _ # @ + @ ( + $ # & !

Now insert them into the password like so.

P&m_nfGo#thPnAa1674@9+1@3(5+5$3#4&3!6

pam never forgot her phone number and address.

I know it looks difficult and impossible. I have done this, and you can too! It all stems from the passphrase.

"pam never forgot her phone number and address"

The hard part? Remembering were the random characters go... But it does come in time and you'll have one hell of a password.

Test your password... The password I created here is can be cracked by 959 million trillion trillion trillion years. Buy this web site determination.



How secure is your password?

The problem with sites that claim to be testing the strength of your passwords is you have no idea if they are actually harvesting them.

Computer says my 31 character password is *******************************

Put it in and I guess I'm good!
Thanks for the website link this is
great and important due to doing
stuff online more than ever now.
Question could I put the website link
with my sig links?

Another try and ....

The problems with passwords, and even the newest strongest encryption, is that 2 months after it's used... a 13 year old Japanese kid will crack it.

This has happened over and over, so often that it's almost a meme. Nothing is REALLY secure.
"Don't trust no one, don't click nothing". <---- Wise advice, and should always be employed unless there is NO other option.




/e Lastly, one of the best pieces of advice, is don't leave tracks all over the internet. Like those seven pieces of info that the bank requires so they know it's really you.

You leave one piece here, another there, etc., and pretty soon a data miner run by a kid will have all seven pieces.
Maybe he'll send you a post card from his time on the french Riviera.



/e2 Btw, the bad guys aren't using some dual CPU computer to crack your password. they are using something like this...

Right click and choose: View Image

Lance1 said:

Test your password... The password I created here is can be cracked by 959 million trillion trillion trillion years. Buy this web site determination.

Sure. That'd be like Johnny the locksmith saying it'll take 12 hours to pick your lock when the Jimmy the thief did it in 10 seconds

You can make password very lengthy and strong but then it is a PITA to enter it.

The solution is then to use a PIN.

People often do not understand how a min. 4 digit PIN is more secure than a long password.

You can only use a PIN when physically at PC. Even if a remote hacker knew your PIN, he could not use it. So even if keyloggers were installed, the hacker could not harvest the real password they would need.

Of course, even a PIN is not totally secure if somebody had access to a PC but it is no less secure than a user trying to guess a bank PIN.

Hmm, I've cracked a 4 digit padlock before now, but then there was nothing to limit the number of attempts...

z3r010 said:

The problem with sites that claim to be testing the strength of your passwords is you have no idea if they are actually harvesting them.

Excellent point, something I have never thought!

I posted this in another thread a year ago:

Kari said:

You might laugh now, but I use addresses as passwords, usually places like hotels or landmarks I have visited, but also home addresses for people important to me.

This sounds complicated, but I can assure you it is extremely easy. I have used this "password protection" system for years, without any issues.

An example. Let's say I need an additional Outlook.com account, and a good password for it. There's a pub in London I have reasons to remember, in 44 Elizabeth Street, post / zip code SW1W 9PA.

My passwords always start with post / zip code, followed by the house / building number and street name. In addition, as this example is about a new Outlook.com account, I need to remember it has a 16 character limit for password.

I would now set the new email account's password as SW1W9PA44Elizabe, 16 first characters from the address written in my way (zip, house #, street). I have an encrypted, password protected password list (Excel workbook) stored in OneDrive. I would now add this account as Outlook 5 - London to that list (I have 4 Outlook.com email addresses already). Part of that list would look like this:

Outlook 1	Isle of Skye 16
Outlook 2	Oslo 16
Outlook 3	Utsjoki 16
Outlook 4	Carrara 16
Outlook 5	London 16
Gmail 1	Charleston FULL

The number after the city in the list reminds me of password length. As Gmail allows really long passwords, FULL in cities assigned to Gmail accounts means I can use the full address; for Outlook, the password in this example would be SW1W9PA44Elizabe, the same address used as Gmail password would be SW1W9PA44ElizabethStreet.

Note that cities in above list are naturally not the real ones I use!

OK, I now have a strong, long password with upper and lower case letters and digits. Together with 2FA, access to my accounts is as secured as possible.

I have no issues in remembering the places or landmarks I associate with each city, they are all important places / companies / people for me. I only use one city for one password, so even if I forgot the password to this sample Outlook.com account, I would check my encrypted list, see the password hint is London. Remembering the place I used in London, I could now use Bing to find their address and be able to sign in.

Kari