On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > nuimtuuh > > > > Since there are a lot of cryptowhatever folks on here - would this be an > > easier password to break because 3 of 8 characters are "u" - or is it > naive > > to think that uuuuuuuu is a bad password. > > Short answer: yes, it is a bad password. A purely non-tech suggestion I was given by a techie was to use a mixture of alpha and numeric characters with spaces, underscores or hyphens sprinkled therein....and to have different passwords, and to change them regularly.....and go crazy trying to remember 'em.... But Shiv is as techie as techie can be, so I suspect he is generally baiting us.... Deepa.