Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked. X0OvEgXjxU
"UKIP has now suspended 18 councillors, 14 candidates, 2 MEPs, 1 national secretary, 1 youth sec, 1 Scottish chair & an entire local branch''
I say well done to Ukip. As a NOTA, I'd say that's about par for a party their size. When will labour, the Tories and LDs clear out some of the "gypsies tramps and thieves" they're infested with.
Bah, I'm in a grumpy mood today. Must be that bloody solar eclipse reducing the Ed M take from my solar panels.
Labour has just expelled 130 people from one constituency association.
As I was told my password had to be a minimum of eight characters.
Groan....
Whats wrong with aminimumof8characters ?
or Oceans11 for that matter. To be honest I thought RobinAndThe7Hoods was better
Also the joke about character creation in some RPGs, where the dialogue will say "Choose wisely, this can't be changed later", cue people posting images of characters named 'wisely', and 'changed'.
More than 130 new members of the Halifax Labour party have been disqualified from voting for the party’s general election candidate after suspicions were raised about their recruitment.
All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage, and joined six to 12 months ago in the same multicultural ward of Halifax, according to Linda Riordan, the outgoing MP, who resigned at the end of February.
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
(I hasten to add that the phrase shown is for illustrative purposes only. having the word 'password' in it reduces the possible combinations - but remember that the hacker does not know the length of your password)
Im actually very warm hearted that both left and right are rounding on the sociopathic views of GeoffM which really do present as a leftist satire on Conservative attitudes
I think you're reading a different site, sunshine.
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
Yeah, a 20-letter word would be far easier to crack than 4 5-letter words joined together.
Late to the password conversation, but if you are looking for serious password management and protection, 2-factor always helps. These things are great
Don't break your leg in Wales. You might still be waiting for an ambulance...
It takes quite a long time to create a poster like this. So Labour knew well before this week they would have no response to the budget, hence their use of Goebbels big lie strategy once again. It will be quite something if the electorate fall for this BS.
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
Yeah, a 20-letter word would be far easier to crack than 4 5-letter words joined together.
I use old car number plates with letters spelt out.... dee is D, em is M and so on
"UKIP has now suspended 18 councillors, 14 candidates, 2 MEPs, 1 national secretary, 1 youth sec, 1 Scottish chair & an entire local branch''
I say well done to Ukip. As a NOTA, I'd say that's about par for a party their size. When will labour, the Tories and LDs clear out some of the "gypsies tramps and thieves" they're infested with.
Bah, I'm in a grumpy mood today. Must be that bloody solar eclipse reducing the Ed M take from my solar panels.
Labour has just expelled 130 people from one constituency association.
Is that all from one association or some of them twice?
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
(I hasten to add that the phrase shown is for illustrative purposes only. having the word 'password' in it reduces the possible combinations - but remember that the hacker does not know the length of your password) That would only be true if the five words were randomly taken from the million in the first place.
@WalesPolitics: "There's only one part of the UK where the NHS has been cut, and that's Wales which is run by the Labour Party", says David Cameron #GE2015
More than 130 new members of the Halifax Labour party have been disqualified from voting for the party’s general election candidate after suspicions were raised about their recruitment.
All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage, and joined six to 12 months ago in the same multicultural ward of Halifax, according to Linda Riordan, the outgoing MP, who resigned at the end of February.
Some of the northern constituencies are a real real mess. There have been huge problems in Rotherham with the local Labour assosciation, now Labour in Halifax and prior to that Falkirk. Rotten to the core.
More than 130 new members of the Halifax Labour party have been disqualified from voting for the party’s general election candidate after suspicions were raised about their recruitment.
All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage, and joined six to 12 months ago in the same multicultural ward of Halifax, according to Linda Riordan, the outgoing MP, who resigned at the end of February.
Some of the northern constituencies are a real real mess. There have been huge problems in Rotherham with the local Labour assosciation, now Labour in Halifax and prior to that Falkirk. Rotten to the core.
Don't forget Bradford West. The candidate only lasted 72hrs after selection and stepped down in mysterious circumstances.
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
@WalesPolitics: "There's only one part of the UK where the NHS has been cut, and that's Wales which is run by the Labour Party", says David Cameron #GE2015
Something quite delicious about Harry Cole from Guido Fawkes calling the BBC metropolitan liberal elites on a video on their own website. 1.30 for the harsh but true words.
Tories will reply with a split poster - one showing an arm in a sling and one showing a broken arm, horribly bent.
Under the first will be : NHS - England - Tory. Under the second NHS - Wales - Labour And at the bottom something like - Who would YOU rather looked after your NHS?
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
It's amazingly dishonest, isn't it? I think tories are still ring fencing nhs expenditure till 2020, unless things have changed since the party conference last year. So what tory cuts? Does "next time" mean "in 2020"?
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
'not nearly as negative' ! Youareunutterablyhilarious.
I'd love to know whether you get overtime for the extra hours you spend looking for negative Labour stories or whether at election time they just expect it for free? I don't know why you don't approach Labour. At least they'll be well unionised
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
I don't think I have ever heard such utter bollocks in my life.
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
(I hasten to add that the phrase shown is for illustrative purposes only. having the word 'password' in it reduces the possible combinations - but remember that the hacker does not know the length of your password)
That would only be true if the five words were randomly taken from the million in the first place.
In theory yes - hence the caveat. Markov chains could possibly reduce the number of combinations - but remember that the hacker doesn't know how many letters or how many words. There are plenty of ways of making the phrase even harder. - the easiest is to increase the number of words (a La Snow White joke below)
(For information: the computer that tests your password doesn't know it! What it does is takes the characters in your password and uses them to generate a 'hash value'. Information is lost during this process so it is impossible to decode the password FROM this 'hash value' - all the hacker can do is try passwords and see if the result going through the encryption algorithm produces the same value.)
I can't work out what's going on with Dropbox, OneCloud and GoogleDrive. They seem to be fighting with each other to publish crap pix I took by accident.
I like Firefox Sync - I see most of the same things whatever device I'm using.
EDIT I love Automatic Call - it records all mine in or outgoing.
Possibly but not unpleasantly so. There's a gentle humour there as there was with the Tory one. But if it doesn't ring true it'll backfire as with all advertising.
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
Good poster from Labour. Much easier to digest than the Tory one with Ed in Alex pocket and not nearly as negative (it implies Labour will cut less). Expect some broken plates at M&C Saatchi!
We all know that Labour will campaign on the NHS as they have nothing else they can do. It is up to the Tories to a) rebut this campaign and b) drive their own messages (of which they have more) home.
As they have the money, I would expect them to swamp Labour once Parliament is dissolved and the phoney war is over.
I can't work out what's going on with Dropbox, OneCloud and GoogleDrive. They seem to be fighting with each other to publish crap pix I took by accident.
I like Firefox Sync - I see most of the same things whatever device I'm using.
I'm usually pretty good with gadgets - but I clearly have dementia about Sony Z3 phones. It has a life of its own. Rings then doesn't. Plays a sound when emails or twitter arrives then doesn't. Honestly, I've no idea WTF is going on.
Randomly publishing or syncing things is just another *feature* I'm enduring.
I can't work out what's going on with Dropbox, OneCloud and GoogleDrive. They seem to be fighting with each other to publish crap pix I took by accident.
I like Firefox Sync - I see most of the same things whatever device I'm using.
Can we just forget about the campaign and have the election now please? It's getting beyond painful. None of the leaders have anything interesting to say, although Clegg's claim to being more anti-establishment now than he was in 2010 was at least eye-catching, if only for being absurd. I managed to sit through all the debates in 2010 even if a bit of fatigue set in a the end. Blair's masochism strategy of 2005 could hardly be called dull even if the man was at the point of having people throwing things at the TV. But this is just awful. Scaremongering, negative posters, a complete optimism deficit as we debate the non-debates and the PM tries to make sure all the big TV stuff that people might actually engage with is over before the public has remembered to switch the TV on because there's an election on the way soon.
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words)
More than 130 new members of the Halifax Labour party have been disqualified from voting for the party’s general election candidate after suspicions were raised about their recruitment.
All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage, and joined six to 12 months ago in the same multicultural ward of Halifax, according to Linda Riordan, the outgoing MP, who resigned at the end of February.
Some of the northern constituencies are a real real mess. There have been huge problems in Rotherham with the local Labour assosciation, now Labour in Halifax and prior to that Falkirk. Rotten to the core.
Don't forget Bradford West. The candidate only lasted 72hrs after selection and stepped down in mysterious circumstances.
Riordan the outgoing MP seems to be agreeing with the signing up of the membership though. She claims they voted for councillor candidates. I do not know if this has any significance, I point it out as the quote implies, as I first thought, that she was the whistleblower. Is Yorkshire the new Scotland?
Talking of political advertising. When I did my one and only PPB (which happened to be for the Lib Dems) it was written by Jeremy Bullmore who at the time was senior writer or possibly creative director of JWT.
It was Paddy Ashdown's first PPB and it was entitled 'Maggies Broken Britain'. Lots of footage of dereliction intercut with Paddy in studio talking to camera. Jeremy's now working for WPP and Martin Sorrel Dave's biggest fan.
Anyway I came across this. He's now become an advertising agony aunt in Campaign and the Guardian. Well worth a look
What the Conservatives should do is have a blow up of the famous note Lliam Byrne left to GO saying "Sorry but there's no money left" Then say that this is what Labour will do again. And from a worse base!
Talking of political advertising. When I did my one and only PPB (which happened to be for the Lib Dems) it was written by Jeremy Bullmore who at the time was senior writer or possibly creative director of JWT.
It was Paddy Ashdown's first PPB and it was entitled 'Maggies Broken Britain'. Lots of footage of dereliction intercut with Paddy in studio talking to camera. He's now working for WPP and Martin Sorrel Dave's biggest fan.
Anyway I came across this. He's now become an advertising agony aunt in Campaign and the Guardian. Well worth a look
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words)
That's why you use more than 2 words! Gets exponentially harder.
What the Conservatives should do is have a blow up of the famous note Lliam Byrne left to GO saying "Sorry but there's no money left" Then say that this is what Labour will do again. And from a worse base!
It appears the Times might have got some egg on their face though...people are claiming that photo of the girls looking at the eclipse is from 2012 taken in Japan!!!
It appears the Times might have got some egg on their face though...people are claiming that photo of the girls looking at the eclipse is from 2012 taken in Japan!!!
There are no headlines because it is impossible for Labour to be racist. Calling Polish people offensive words is not racist, called Chuka Umuna Chukawumbawumba is not racist, British Jobs for British Workers is not racist, saying that white people like to play divide and rule is not racist, having neo-nazi councillors is not racist, accepting BNP members is not racist, etc etc etc.
Police called in over billgate. I note that the bill claimed as part of this latest UKIP scandal was £3,150. But... ''The original receipt for the event, which Mr Farage and Ukip MP Mark Reckless attended, totalled £950 and was paid with a credit card. This week, however, Ms Hewitt returned to the restaurant to claim an invoice for £3,150.'' (Times) It looks like a room hire event was turned into a full blown meal, to be claimed on expenses allowable to the far right grouping UKIP made a point of joining. We see now why they needed to join. I wonder if any other restaurants have been in on the scam. It might be wise to keep quiet if there are because they will be part of a fraud.
In this case Ms Hewitt is well in the frame so the question is will she be a patsy. From her alleged words this is not the first time they have repatriated money.
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked
Millions still use easy-to-crack passwords such as ‘qwerty’ and ‘123456’, but many people are choosing to use more complex sets of characters for our online accounts.
However, a new study has found these seemingly random passwords may be more obvious to hack than you realise.
Researchers have shown that passwords such as ‘mnbvcxz’, ‘qaz2wsx’ and ‘adgjmptw’ can be cracked in seconds - and adding numbers to your codes does little to boost its strength
What bothers me is those passwords should never have been leaked in the first place.
Any decent system never stores the password - so it cannot leak even if the software is hacked.
The key factor in any password security is not caps/numbers/punctuation but LENGTH. Any password of 20 or more letters is pretty well uncrackable.
And there was me thinking entropy had something to do with it.
Is it also the case that the earth is shaped like a banana?
If you have 20 characters then possible combinations (lowercasetextonly) is 26^20 =2 X 10^28. If you have 10 characters (Text0) you have 62^10 = 8 X 10^17 - which is 2.5 X 10^11 times as likely to be cracked.
But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words) XKCD on password strength
Police called in over billgate. I note that the bill claimed as part of this latest UKIP scandal was £3,150. But... ''The original receipt for the event, which Mr Farage and Ukip MP Mark Reckless attended, totalled £950 and was paid with a credit card. This week, however, Ms Hewitt returned to the restaurant to claim an invoice for £3,150.'' (Times) It looks like a room hire event was turned into a full blown meal, to be claimed on expenses allowable to the far right grouping UKIP made a point of joining. We see now why they needed to join. I wonder if any other restaurants have been in on the scam. It might be wise to keep quiet if there are because they will be part of a fraud.
In this case Ms Hewitt is well in the frame so the question is will she be a patsy. From her alleged words this is not the first time they have repatriated money.
Police called in over billgate. I note that the bill claimed as part of this latest UKIP scandal was £3,150. But... ''The original receipt for the event, which Mr Farage and Ukip MP Mark Reckless attended, totalled £950 and was paid with a credit card. This week, however, Ms Hewitt returned to the restaurant to claim an invoice for £3,150.'' (Times) It looks like a room hire event was turned into a full blown meal, to be claimed on expenses allowable to the far right grouping UKIP made a point of joining. We see now why they needed to join. I wonder if any other restaurants have been in on the scam. It might be wise to keep quiet if there are because they will be part of a fraud.
In this case Ms Hewitt is well in the frame so the question is will she be a patsy. From her alleged words this is not the first time they have repatriated money.
I have been invivted to events hosted by other parties at the EU taxpayers expense. Justsayin....
It looks like labour falling out with all they celebrity supporters ,story might help labour though.
Nick Sutton @suttonnick · 10 mins10 minutes ago Saturday's Daily Mirror front page: Cheryl's mansion tax row #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers
That reminds me of a great quote from another previous X-Factor "star"...
Dermot O'Leary when asked about his politics - "I suspect that these days I'm politically closest to the Socialist Workers, but they'd take all my money so it's still Labour."
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But if you use a 20-letter word (as Rees-Mogg might), it becomes much easier to crack.
or Oceans11 for that matter. To be honest I thought RobinAndThe7Hoods was better
I can just imagine how discussion in the "kitchenette" went on Wednesday night.
Justine, Justine...those nasty bigger boys were horrible today at work...they said...they said...we have two fridges. We don't do we Justine?
X0OvEgXjxU
[ed: sorry, you said lower case only] gmrsxymhvg
aabbccddeeffgghhiijj
Get my drift?
"The Leaders' interviews" http://t.co/u645IEclG4
I hope they put them side by side on a couch.
All but seven of the disqualified members are of Asian heritage, and joined six to 12 months ago in the same multicultural ward of Halifax, according to Linda Riordan, the outgoing MP, who resigned at the end of February.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/20/labour-disqualifies-130-halifax-party-members-linda-riordan
We keep getting wind of these kind of stories.
Not many 20 letter words around - but even having a simple phrase such as 'Ialwaysknowmypassword' is just as difficult to crack - but dead easy to remember.
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
(I hasten to add that the phrase shown is for illustrative purposes only. having the word 'password' in it reduces the possible combinations - but remember that the hacker does not know the length of your password)
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
Yeah, a 20-letter word would be far easier to crack than 4 5-letter words joined together.
https://store.yubico.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=95
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/20/ed-miliband-complains-george-osborne-two-kitchens-budget-jibe
I use old car number plates with letters spelt out.... dee is D, em is M and so on
(password hackers use a large database of common words and try them with numbers added - or O replace by 0 - that sort of thing. The larger their database the worse it is for them in this case as they must try all combinations. So a million sample word database would require 10^6^5 = 10^30 attempts to match the 5-word phrase quoted))
(I hasten to add that the phrase shown is for illustrative purposes only. having the word 'password' in it reduces the possible combinations - but remember that the hacker does not know the length of your password)
That would only be true if the five words were randomly taken from the million in the first place.
@WalesPolitics: "There's only one
part of the UK where the NHS has been cut, and that's Wales
which is run by the Labour Party", says David Cameron #GE2015
Some of the northern constituencies are a real real mess. There have been huge problems in Rotherham with the local Labour assosciation, now Labour in Halifax and prior to that Falkirk. Rotten to the core.
But I can see why Ed likes it - it's Too Kitsch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31989571
Under the first will be : NHS - England - Tory. Under the second NHS - Wales - Labour
And at the bottom something like - Who would YOU rather looked after your NHS?
I'd love to know whether you get overtime for the extra hours you spend looking for negative Labour stories or whether at election time they just expect it for free? I don't know why you don't approach Labour. At least they'll be well unionised
The public trust Labour more on the NHS, whatever Tory SpAds might tweet furiously about Wales. It's instinctive
Actually I think it reached the funny bone.
I like Firefox Sync - I see most of the same things whatever device I'm using.
EDIT I love Automatic Call - it records all mine in or outgoing.
"It's amazingly dishonest, isn't it?"
Possibly but not unpleasantly so. There's a gentle humour there as there was with the Tory one. But if it doesn't ring true it'll backfire as with all advertising.
As they have the money, I would expect them to swamp Labour once Parliament is dissolved and the phoney war is over.
Randomly publishing or syncing things is just another *feature* I'm enduring.
If I had any secret I'd be fucked.
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words)
Is Yorkshire the new Scotland?
It was Paddy Ashdown's first PPB and it was entitled 'Maggies Broken Britain'. Lots of footage of dereliction intercut with Paddy in studio talking to camera. Jeremy's now working for WPP and Martin Sorrel Dave's biggest fan.
Anyway I came across this. He's now become an advertising agony aunt in Campaign and the Guardian. Well worth a look
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/go/campaign_couch/
youtube.com/watch?v=UP13Oc8CDxo
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words)
That's why you use more than 2 words! Gets exponentially harder.
Labour disqualifies more than 130 Halifax party members before hustings http://gu.com/p/46zjd/stw
Why did the chicken cross the road?To avoid the TV debates.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to Ed's other kitchen.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/579033410003406848
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/579026004439666689
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QUICK STOP THE PRESSES................
I noticed an ITV journo got caught out with a fake photo of the eclipse from the ISS.
So now I use TheNeverendingStory
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Saturday's i front page:
Labour’s secret City donor revealed
#tomorrowspaperstoday #BBCPapers pic.twitter.com/KJXdlBUOkr
You have to laugh.
Must be the first class war ever waged by a Labour millionaire with a dual-kitchened mansion.
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Saturday's Telegraph front page:
Lib Dems engulfed in second donor row
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/efEVHF74Vb
Harry Phibbs @harryph
Stonking hypocrisy. But Labour have made this much worse for themselves with their clumsy attempt at a cover-up. pic.twitter.com/NEYh1QfFWg
I note that the bill claimed as part of this latest UKIP scandal was £3,150. But...
''The original receipt for the event, which Mr Farage and Ukip MP Mark Reckless attended, totalled £950 and was paid with a credit card. This week, however, Ms Hewitt returned to the restaurant to claim an invoice for £3,150.'' (Times)
It looks like a room hire event was turned into a full blown meal, to be claimed on expenses allowable to the far right grouping UKIP made a point of joining. We see now why they needed to join. I wonder if any other restaurants have been in on the scam. It might be wise to keep quiet if there are because they will be part of a fraud.
In this case Ms Hewitt is well in the frame so the question is will she be a patsy. From her alleged words this is not the first time they have repatriated money.
Why did the chicken cross the Mobius band?
To get to the other ... oh s**t!
Hackers have rainbow tables of dictionary words (and compounds of pairs dictionary words)
XKCD on password strength
Nick Sutton @suttonnick · 10 mins10 minutes ago
Saturday's Daily Mirror front page:
Cheryl's mansion tax row
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers
Dermot O'Leary when asked about his politics - "I suspect that these days I'm politically closest to the Socialist Workers, but they'd take all my money so it's still Labour."
Saturday's Guardian front page:
Operation ‘Save Cameron’ launched
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers
Can someone tell me what this story is about ?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/20/camerons-praetorian-guard-plan-to-save-him-from-post-election-unseating
PS all references to ed "two kitchens" Miliband's second kitchen are inherently funny. Very funny.