HOW TO MAKE A STAR TREK LIKE SECURE PASSWORD
Make sure your STO account isn't TRIBBLE. Make a Strong password.
In star trek first contact Captain Picard activates the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE 1701 E Autodestruct.
youtu.be/IvTfbQRnA8s
PICARD47ALPHATANGO
WORF37GAMMAECHO
CRUSHER22BETACHARLIE
Janeway sets selfdestruct for U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656
youtu.be/qNTHnPbVtsw
JANEWAYPi110
Use a format like this Expample:
( Last name ) ( The 3 numbers of the middle of your social security number ) ( Greek alphabet ) ( Greek alphabet )
Don't have the last two the same. like Alpha, Alpha. Mix them. Put Upper & Lower Case letters in the password. Test our your password at the website below.
Test your new Password out.
www.passwordmeter.com/
Entire List of Greek Alphabet
www.physlink.com/reference/greekalphabet.cfm
Comments
I'm just messing, my actual password is much more secure than that
Yes, you should add a 9 to the end. Nobody expects that.
interesting. I am tempted to use this idea seeing that my current password is only 95%
Garibaldi "Reset Command Code Password, this is Chief of Security Michael Garibaldi. Password: Peekaboo"
Ivanova:(Looking at Garibaldi) "Peekaboo?"
Garibaldi (to Ivanova) "Would you have guessed it?"
Transmitting my password to a site to see how strong it is makes my eye twitch. :eek:
This is the most intelligent thing I've ever seen about modern passwords.
haha, nice.
There's some good counters to this, though. A common variation on a dictionary attack will get the second in about 9 days (still longer than brute forcing the complex password), but will never solve the first. Tables specifically designed for multiple dictionary words can get that down to a few hours, or even down to minutes if you can narrow the word list (say, 7 letter maximum and common nouns only - which would crack the xkcd example but fail against many others), provided of course you're reasonably certain when you start that this type of password is in use.
The real problem, though, is that actually breaking passwords is very, very rare. On the order of single digit percents of actual security breaches. Even a password that can be cracked in a matter of seconds is unlikely to be broken before password policies automatically lock the account out entirely.
The vast majority of consumer-level security breaches are captured passwords - keyloggers and phishing scams have been the primary means of stealing bank accounts since the Windows 95 days, and they've exploded into the MMO world to the point that gold farmers almost never actually farm gold, but harvest it from accounts they took by simply capturing passwords.
A 680 character password that requires a second keyboard and special control codes to input might as well be "aaaaaa" if a keylogger is involved.
Yay you won the cake!
If someone really wants your password, they'll get it.
Well, yeah, if the guy sets up an attack knowing that you used words with lowercase letters, no numbers, and is so sure of that he's willing to commit his computer to 9 days trying to guess it....
Hah! Yeah, that was a good one too. Reminds me of the story about NASA investing a million $ in a study to figure out how to use a pen in space. Russians used a pencil. :rolleyes:
http://xkcd.com/936/
I doubt its findings. It said "Passw0rd!" was secure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPphyjkXnPc
Hackers: 1%
Me: 99%
FYI: An American SSN has two middle digits and is generally in the format of 3-2-4. Canadians follow the 3-3-3 format, IIRC.
I actually get this a lot at my shop, people lock themselves out of their laptops all the time, usually because they make a complex password and can't remember if it's a capital X or >< or whatever, or an obscure hint that they then can't decipher. Got it enough that I separated it from my general boot resolution service and gave it a cheap while-you-wait price, since no matter how good the password is it's a 5 minute hack on a Windows system.
13 Quadrillion Years. That should be sufficient.
Will take about About 5 vigintillion years to hack.
The first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings: About 150 trigintillion years