Passwords: The not to use

[clacker]

Originally Posted by thatguywhy

this is really helpful
i hate when people make really stupid passwords

Like qwerty or their name.... :P

[J4mmy]

In addition to the tips already given in this thread, here is the list of 500 worst passwords: What's My Pass? » The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time
This might be interesting to people who believe their password is not strong enough.

[jj1two3]

Thanks for the post and information. I know a lot of people that use their kids names as passwords. Not Good.

[clacker]

Originally Posted by jj1two3

Thanks for the post and information. I know a lot of people that use their kids names as passwords. Not Good.

Some people have no common sense... -_-

[PhoneBooth]

Originally Posted by Diggs

i have a question:

don't hackers target specific people? they're not gonna go after any old scrub are they? and if they don't even know the person, how on earth could they begin to start typing things at random trying to base the password on personality traits? things don't add up.

do they have a program that inputs all possible password combination or something?

hackers have their own beautiful ways of getting in an access to any user and hardware. They might use their own talents mixed up with those annoying softwares which helped them in their journey to hack....

sofwares like Lopthcrack, cain and abel, john the ripper etc.. those are the softwares they use to hack and crack accounts, pc's ports and others...

[Tommy Boy]

I knew a guy once who used "microsoft" backwards as his password for everything.....of course he told everyone so it wasn't too secure.....lol

The only thing I will say about my passwords is that they're Spanish......