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The gentle art of cracking passwords

15 pointsby mikehall314over 11 years ago

2 comments

tagawaover 11 years ago
Similar to this, Ars Technica published a very interesting, and more in-depth, article earlier this year: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;how-crackers-make-mi...</a>
summerdown2over 11 years ago
People are lazy. But on the other hand, there are far too many sites forcing people to have unique passwords. Ultimately, passwords have to be re-used.<p>I suppose the alternative might be a password manager, but given the NSA revelations I feel even less secure about putting my passwords onto a cloud-based list.