I found an interesting article here (its 2 pages), its about length vs complexity of a password, and which makes it stronger.
There's also a little table of times taken via brute force attacks depending on length of password here, which compliments the first articles point.
I think everyone should have at least 10 character passwords, with 1 number. Many of the sites now require at least 8 character passwords with 1 number, but what is remembering an extra 2 characters?
You see, many 6 letter, only lower case passwords are easily crackable within a nice time period
I mean, no one gives a crap about your email, but what about your steam or battle.net accounts?
The worst thing I do is use the same one or two passwords for all types of accounts that I have. If a person guessed one, they could log in to all kinds of my shit.
I usually use random gibberish words or words from foreign languages... It helps if theres plenty of vowels in there so the word is actually pronounceable gibberish, makes it easier to remember
Personally when I make a password I take a long word the turn it into leet speak of some kind like
Collector
C0!!l3c70r
or
Transformers
7r@n$f0r/\/\3r$
Any word works for it really I am usualy able to remember it or I just put it somewhere where I can copy/paste it.. I actually never used to do passwords like this until my World of Warcraft account got hacked a few times then I just started Copy/pasting my password for that in since it is so complicated with random numbers and letters I cant actualy remember how to type it all I have it saved on my phone if I lose the document I have it saved it but a Key-Logger cant track a copy/paste so it all works out.
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There's also a little table of times taken via brute force attacks depending on length of password here, which compliments the first articles point.
I think everyone should have at least 10 character passwords, with 1 number. Many of the sites now require at least 8 character passwords with 1 number, but what is remembering an extra 2 characters?
You see, many 6 letter, only lower case passwords are easily crackable within a nice time period
I mean, no one gives a crap about your email, but what about your steam or battle.net accounts?
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Collector
C0!!l3c70r
or
Transformers
7r@n$f0r/\/\3r$
Any word works for it really I am usualy able to remember it or I just put it somewhere where I can copy/paste it.. I actually never used to do passwords like this until my World of Warcraft account got hacked a few times then I just started Copy/pasting my password for that in since it is so complicated with random numbers and letters I cant actualy remember how to type it all I have it saved on my phone if I lose the document I have it saved it but a Key-Logger cant track a copy/paste so it all works out.