On Dec 5, 2015 10:22 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > a brute force attack on that trying various passwords incrementally will take years (without using numbers or $p3c1al characters.)
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ I switched to a fully random password generator for most of my financial-type accounts, after reading this article (now 2.5 years out of date!). If everything is properly salted it's not as bleak, but I don't trust every vendor to get that right - even Ashley Madison thought they were doing everything right, and an error was found such that most of the passwords were cracked. Best, Tim Has experienced that problem where he misplaced the password to his Mercedes _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
