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Tigerworks

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29th June, 2004 at 13:01:21 -

After this morning's events, I would like to remind some people about good practices with passwords...

1) Don't use the same password for every site. If you, say, signed up to a site which had some unethical people behind it, and you used the same password as another site, then you're in for some fun.
2) Don't use short or dictionary based passwords. If your password was something like "example", then somebody malicious could simply brute force it with a word list and be in your account in under a minute. Almost all passwords are case sensative, take advantage of this! A good password is something like "a95BhSjR6Sn78DyjGH". There are these wonderful things called cookies too, which means you only need to enter it once, and you can remain nice and secure without doing anything. Write down your passwords on a piece of paper next to your computer or something (remember to use a different one for each site), and keep those passwords nice and long too (a five or six character password can be brute forced quite feasably).
3) If you're an admin, you should take these measures even more seriously

 
- Tigerworks

Hamish M



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29th June, 2004 at 13:11:26 -

Dont tell the admins what to do, they know better than you

 
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ChrisB

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29th June, 2004 at 13:18:27 -

Yes, they know all the security flaws so they know how to avoid getting caught out by them

 
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Hamish M



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29th June, 2004 at 13:20:59 -

It's not like the daily click has ever been hacked or anything anyway

 
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Kris

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29th June, 2004 at 13:21:19 -

well it's hard to keep up with all the new ones that keep appearing

 
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AndyUK

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29th June, 2004 at 22:05:15 -

My password used to be 'andrew' and someone somehow managed to find it out with some super hacking program (probably). Then they flamed pete and did some other stuff. Of course nobody believed it was actually me.
So now ive changed it to 'andypandyisdaman' so nobody will guess it!
oh wait i just told you, ill just change it again....

 
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Mr Icekirby



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30th June, 2004 at 09:58:16 -

people here are too lazy to hack others accounts often, be glad

 
Mr Icekirby says so!
OBEY ME!

Kramy



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2nd July, 2004 at 02:45:07 -

Gee, I use the same password for over 40 sites I visit, and also my email.

 
Kramy

Jenswa

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16th July, 2004 at 11:39:22 -

"Dont tell the admins what to do, they know better than you"

So an admin always knows it better and shouldn't listen to advice?


 
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ChrisB

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16th July, 2004 at 12:24:58 -

Yes. Do as they say, not as they do

 
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Knudde (Shab)

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16th July, 2004 at 17:43:25 -

Act like an idiot.
Both what I say and what I do.

 
Craps, I'm an old man!
   

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