11 August 2011

Password Strength (xkcd)

"Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."

http://xkcd.com/936/

20 Aug 11: Update:

Joel Stein on the difficulty of using safe passwords:  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2089349,00.html

And, a link to gauging the difficulty of cracking your password using brute force:
http://www.grc.com/haystack.htm


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