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HyperByte
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 04:55
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I'm trying to figure out the typical security stats of computer users for my school. My question is how many characters are in your password? (note: you dont have to tell me if you dont want to)

On a scale from one to ten one being very smart and ten being an absolute genius your none of the above
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indi
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 05:01
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password recovery speeds are documented around the internet, which will give you an indication of the type of password usage as well.

http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi&s=articles

your signature and location indicate to me you think your clever and a comedian

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 05:01
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For me it depends on the site and requirements - anywhere between 5 and 9 characters.

More importantly than length:
1) Is it a dictionary word (or derivative of)
2) How many of the "four" does it use? (uppercase, lowercase, number and symbol)

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 06:51 Edited at: 24th Mar 2007 06:51
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I find I don't totally care about how easy my passwords are to crack on forums and other sites like that. However, my ebay, paypal, newegg etc. passwords would be much harder to figure out. I usually have about 8 characters with at least one numeric character. My password is different on almost every site, so I suppose that if someone got my password for one site, it would be hard for them to get my other passwords, since they are all different.

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Steve J
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 07:05
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Am I the only person that generally has a 15 character password that I encode in MD5 and then submit, lol?

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 09:47
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I couldn't tell you offhand my passwords, as they're mostly based on finger patterns on the keyboard. Circular, diagonal up then straight down, that sort of thing. Really hard to guess.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 12:02
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i have 7 characters in mine, but i really hate when websites force password requirements on you. i found the OUAC website to be the worst so far, required at least 3 lowercase, 3 uppercase and 3 numerical characters. it means i can't use my normal password and hence i have to make a new one up i'd usually forget by the next time i wish to go on the site.

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Seppuku Arts
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My old password was easy to crack, but I now use words that I can remember that don't relate to me, or words that aren't English, would be impossible to guess, heck one of my passwords is a name I made up using Japanese syallables, something highly unlikely to guess.

Characters, well usually 6-8 for me.

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Mikey P
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 15:18
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My regular is about nine, mixed case alphanumeric, the one I use for important stuff, where security matters, is about 19 characters mixed case, alpha numeric with symbols ^^.. Overkill? I think so.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 15:31
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One of mine is 15, another is 13.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 16:43
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One of mine is 13 characters and I completely made up the word... no one will ever guess it, except for maybe my cousin who knows me too well.

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dab
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 22:17
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I have a friend that types in 23 letters for his password. But they are all lowercase and all on the homerow of the keyboard. Most of the letters are a's, s's, and d's

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BatVink
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Posted: 24th Mar 2007 23:19
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My password is "password".

Of course, telling people how long your password is bypasses the first challenge of a hacker. If my password is 8 characters, and the hacker uses a brute-force method starting at 5 characters, he has to make over 80 billion guesses before he even gets the correct number of letters/numbers in my password.
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UnderLord
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Posted: 25th Mar 2007 06:20
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I have 8 characters in mine comprised of upper case lower case and numbers, my friend has a 6 character password that is actually those special symbols like Ü♀ \|æ something like that, I thought that was pretty clever...

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Benjamin
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Quote: "I thought that was pretty clever..."

Only if the password system supports those non-standard characters.

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Posted: 25th Mar 2007 07:22 Edited at: 25th Mar 2007 07:26
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Edit: I have a 28 character password with upper/lowercase+numbers+symbols for my PC account

For online stuff, I have two other 12 character password with upper/lowercase + numbers

This account has a 14 character pass with lowercase+numbers

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Crazy Ninja
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Posted: 25th Mar 2007 14:47
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I've got 6572 letter password for my RS account that uses 524 and a half capital letters.

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Screwed Over
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Posted: 25th Mar 2007 14:59
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usually six characters and is a word which noone will ever acknoledge, but some sites want you to have at least a capital, a symbol and a number in the password, which is just downright annoying... but really, whos gonna want to hack anything i go on...


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HyperByte
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Posted: 25th Mar 2007 23:07
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My teacher also wants the report to be more detailed to determine the useage of "secure characters" (capitol letters,numbers,symbols)
and where they are placed.

so can you just tell me the first 2 and last 3 characters of one of your passwords. for example my most common password begins with
"As" and ends with "d2!"

On a scale from one to ten one being very smart and ten being an absolute genius your none of the above
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Izzy545
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 00:50
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I love how if someone had a 6 letter password and they really did tell you the first 2 and the last 3 characters you could get into their account soooo easily.

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BatVink
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 12:42
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Locked by another mod, presumably because you're asking for personal and sensitive data.
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indi
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 15:15
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yeah sorry didnt make a post regarding this and the team request.
was a bit busy at the time.

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