From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90514138334 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C8D9E09EA; Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1AB4BE09D5 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqck0-000zAN-Gm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:48:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong. Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 13:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8d027455-f210-c399-f5a7-bfb05692cc5f@gmail.com> <2593531.BapclQZ6Rp@peak> <20190204103703.184d5001@digimed.co.uk> <12204550.2pT58cCFQF@dell_xps> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 In-Reply-To: <12204550.2pT58cCFQF@dell_xps> Content-Language: en-US X-Archives-Salt: 047ffcd9-79f9-438a-86d0-f12bb5787e7d X-Archives-Hash: e2218e12ef1d26b1158aab62f6971219 On 04/02/2019 13:17, Mick wrote: > You will be surprised how many people are still using passwds like: > > password > password1 > arsenal > manchesterunited2018 > fido > > on websites which store their credit card details. O_O A friend of mine used "********" as a password because it matched what was being shown on the screen while typing it, and thus no one would ever be able to figure that one out. He thought he was being very smart.