nsr Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 At university our passwords were set to random strings of numbers and letters. I typed it in so many times that eventually I couldn't tell you what it was but my fingers remembered where to go. Fnarr etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 Do mods get to see users' passwords as well as their email addresses? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 In the mid-nineties when we (OK, "I") didn't know much about Internet security, the login password for my work's home page was Mrs Shotgun's first name. Fiendishly deceptive...or so I thought. One day, I arrived at work to find one of the IT guys sitting at my desk. He immediately picked up the phone and said "It's OK, he's here now." Then the two of us sat and watched my computer screen as a really quite imaginative array of porn flashed up. Site, after site, after site. After about 10 minutes of this, the IT gave a big sigh and said "Alright, how about we change your password to something a bit harder to guess?" I'd fired someone about a week before and I suspect he was the culprit but as far as I know, the company never took it any further. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 When I need a password with 8 characters I always use Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Shotgun said: In the mid-nineties when we (OK, "I") didn't know much about Internet security, the login password for my work's home page was Mrs Shotgun's first name. Fiendishly deceptive...or so I thought. One day, I arrived at work to find one of the IT guys sitting at my desk. He immediately picked up the phone and said "It's OK, he's here now." Then the two of us sat and watched my computer screen as a really quite imaginative array of porn flashed up. Site, after site, after site. After about 10 minutes of this, the IT gave a big sigh and said "Alright, how about we change your password to something a bit harder to guess?" I'd fired someone about a week before and I suspect he was the culprit but as far as I know, the company never took it any further. little bit tangential but at my last job the ops manager came around and asked some of us if we knew what putlocker was. It turned out someone on the backshift had been trying to get onto those iffy adware filled sites like Putlocker for free movies/TV shows and sports while on his shift, and the ops manager had received an email from the IT department as it was causing security flags to raise. Think the daft soul got sacked literally the next day, fell under misuse of company IT equipment. edit: apparently more than a few of the younger people on the backshift were given repeated warnings for using their mobile phones when it was company policy to strictly not have it on your person when at your desk (due to dealing with financial information etc., and seemingly there had been a bit of a calamity a few years previously after someone took a photo of a footballer's P60 or something and put it up on social media so there was very little tolerance of it, counted as formal warnings toward your disciplinary record) Edited November 13, 2019 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 22 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said: When I need a password with 8 characters I always use Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Hahahabananahaha 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Some scammer tried it on yesterday on my landline. Said they were with sky and wanted to give me sky sports and movies with a discount, I do have sky but don’t have either so thought it was legit. Gave them my name and address as a security then they asked for my password. I was half paying attention but this made me focus and told them to get to Falkirk before I phoned the police. Hope they phone back so I can mess them about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Hunter2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Wing Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 John McVeigh is a tit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Just had some guy on the phone claiming to be from P&B and saying he needed my bank details if I wanted to continue using this forum. Seems a bit unfair but at least I can keep posting here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 17 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: I used to use the word hahahahahahahaha a lot, since the more characters a password has, the more secure it is. However, to make it even more uncrackable, I'd sometimes slip a banana in there, e.g. hahahabananahaha. Banks, the killjoys that they are, make you use letters AND numbers, as if I've not got enough else on my plate already. So for my bank (04-11-70 00906628), I tend to use my favourite football team and the year they were founded. And I'd wager not many hackers would know my favourite team is Stranraer or that they were formed in 1870. To date, I've never had any bank accounts hacked. I did have my bank card cloned and my account emptied, but that's only cos 4 digit PINs are anything but secure. Anyway, over to you. As banks want a mixture of upper and lower case letters, and numbers, I’m thinking of changing my passwords to: GIRFUYCardinalRichelieu2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweaty Morph Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 I tried to change my password to chicken but was advised it needed a capital, so I changed it to chickenkiev. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyJoddy Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 qwerty1234 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 H4ngN0nce4ndr3w 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 On 14/11/2019 at 01:14, Chicken Wing said: John McVeigh is a tit On a serious note, theres been lots of research lately that says a phrase is a far better password than a word with a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and characters. Obviously, they are longer which makes them harder to crack and they are far easier to remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 thisisnotapasswordorisit? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 K33pPu5h1ng1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unleash The Nade Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Y0veb33nHaCk3dB4ck Makes the hackers nervous as f**k once they’ve hacked you . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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