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Flightpath said:

MarqueeMark said:

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/578988853656162305

Keep paying up, taxpayers - or we'll send the boys round....

Looks like the result of an Ed Balls tackle.

Or Boris :-)

weejonnie said:

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

MarkHopkins said:

Plato said:

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3004470/Is-password-adgjmptw-Researcher-reveals-complex-log-details-easier-crack-thought.html#ixzz3UwrvBrPv
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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.

Scott_P said:

@nicholaswatt: Exc: @ed_miliband complained in person to @george_osborne about his 'two kitchens' jibe in budget, say Tories http://t.co/QbxF5cKL9S

Because Ed never does the same.....

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?

Ed's kitchen is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Twice.

CD13 said:

"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.

Flightpath said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

My password is

"SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs"

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.

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.

Late to the password conversation, but if you are looking for serious password management and protection, 2-factor always helps. These things are great

https://store.yubico.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=95

Sean_F said:

CD13 said:

"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?

FrancisUrquhart said:

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.

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.

Kinda puts those UKIP numbers in perspective.

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.

I don't like that Labour NHS poster.

But I can see why Ed likes it - it's Too Kitsch.

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?

Scott 'n

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 poster has obviously touched a nerve!

The public trust Labour more on the NHS, whatever Tory SpAds might tweet furiously about Wales. It's instinctive

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

RobD said:

weejonnie said:

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

MarkHopkins said:

Plato said:

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3004470/Is-password-adgjmptw-Researcher-reveals-complex-log-details-easier-crack-thought.html#ixzz3UwrvBrPv
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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.)

Roger said:

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!

Roger said:

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!

For real?! It's off puttingly hideous.

Plato said:

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.

RobD said:

Freggles said:

With a password manager, what if you need to log in from another computer?

Mine syncs with Dropbox, so I have remote access. Only downside is I have to remember the Dropbox password, and hope it doesn't get hacked!

Oh, is this a setting on your smartphone to auto publish photos on google + or something? Obtrusive. you should be able to disable it somehow

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.

Plato said:

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

Only on PB...

RobD said:

weejonnie said:

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

MarkHopkins said:

Plato said:

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3004470/Is-password-adgjmptw-Researcher-reveals-complex-log-details-easier-crack-thought.html#ixzz3UwrvBrPv
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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)

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


http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/go/campaign_couch/

Paging @isam

Alistair said:

Plato said:

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

Only on PB...

RobD said:

weejonnie said:

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

MarkHopkins said:

Plato said:

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3004470/Is-password-adgjmptw-Researcher-reveals-complex-log-details-easier-crack-thought.html#ixzz3UwrvBrPv
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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.

Scott_P said:

SMukesh said:

At least he won`t be chicken and hide behind the sofa.

Will he hide in one of his kitchens instead?

There`

There is only one man who is hiding at the moment.

Why did the chicken cross the road?To avoid the TV debates.

Scott_P said:

SMukesh said:

At least he won`t be chicken and hide behind the sofa.

Will he hide in one of his kitchens instead?

7 houses, how many kitchens does DC have?

Two fingers up at the BBC / Guardian me thinks...

https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/579033410003406848

So Ed...I take this guy is a good hedge fund guy, it is all the rest that are bad eggs? Ed a hypocrite, surely not.

https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/579026004439666689

TheScreamingEagles said:

My password is

"SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs"

As I was told my password had to be a minimum of eight characters.

An IT guy once told me I should make my password as long as possible.

So now I use TheNeverendingStory

FrancisUrquhart said:

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!!!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WL9OCjejjlc/T78YA5lq1TI/AAAAAAAAAH8/_6qhxbtCmB4/s1600/kinkan+nishoku.png

QUICK STOP THE PRESSES................

I noticed an ITV journo got caught out with a fake photo of the eclipse from the ISS.

Looks like it is from 2012. Oh dear!

Nick Sutton ✔ @suttonnick

Saturday's Telegraph front page:
Lib Dems engulfed in second donor row
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/efEVHF74Vb

MikeK said:

Nothing to say? Why no headlines? @BBCNews @MirrorPolitics @Channel4 @hopenothate Where's the outcry? pic.twitter.com/OXGWS8Afzo

— Suzanne Evans (@SuzanneEvans1) March 15, 2015

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.

SMukesh said:

There is only one man who is hiding at the moment.

Why did the chicken cross the road?To avoid the TV debates.

And for you mathematical dilettantes

Why did the chicken cross the Mobius band?
To get to the other ... oh s**t!

Alistair said:

Plato said:

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

Only on PB...

RobD said:

weejonnie said:

Ishmael_X said:

weejonnie said:

MarkHopkins said:

Plato said:

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3004470/Is-password-adgjmptw-Researcher-reveals-complex-log-details-easier-crack-thought.html#ixzz3UwrvBrPv
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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

FrankBooth said:

Charles said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

My password is

"SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs"

As I was told my password had to be a minimum of eight characters.

An IT guy once told me I should make my password as long as possible.

So now I use TheNeverendingStory

I thought you were going to say your password was aslongaspossible.

I do have certain minimum standards, I'll have you know!

Flightpath said:

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....

Nick Sutton ‏@suttonnick ·

Saturday's Guardian front page:
Operation ‘Save Cameron’ launched
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers

Can someone tell me what this story is about ?

RobD said:

Tykejohnno said:

Nick Sutton ‏@suttonnick ·

Saturday's Guardian front page:
Operation ‘Save Cameron’ launched
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers

Can someone tell me what this story is about ?

This is the praetorian guard story?

Your right.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/20/camerons-praetorian-guard-plan-to-save-him-from-post-election-unseating