Passwords.

2-factor authentication, if available, is a PITA, but does improve security a great deal.
 
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Wonder if Bobby and captain n have password trouble between their multiple accounts..
 
sxturbo said:
Wonder if Bobby and captain n have password trouble between their multiple accounts..
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Mottie said:
I wonder if they’ve ever logged on as one but posted as another?
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I made a mistake once, I thought I was logged on as Mottie, and I started talking absolute gibberish.
Then I realised I was logged on as sxturbo, so I had to change what I'd typed to add some bigoted nonsense to the gibberish to make it look authentic.
I think I got away with it.
 
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And a password manager
 
sxturbo said:
Wonder if Bobby and captain n have password trouble between their multiple accounts..
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Mottie said:
I wonder if they’ve ever logged on as one but posted as another?
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transam said:
;)

:LOL::LOL:
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What ridiculously stupid, pathetic, and childish persons you all are.

Do you behave like this in real life?

Do you lie to, and about people?

Do you meet up with other liars and laugh with each other about how stupid and pathetic and childish you have managed to be?
 
If authentication required a delay of a few seconds between successive password attempts, wouldn't that make automated cracking impractically slow, even for relatively short passwords?
 
Alec_t said:
If authentication required a delay of a few seconds between successive password attempts, wouldn't that make automated cracking impractically slow, even for relatively short passwords?
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It does, and many systems enforce that or something very like it. But that's not the only way you can break passwords.

They're normally saved in encrypted format so they can check the password you give is the same as the one they're expecting. If someone can get that file then they can take all the time they want to break it. There are other methods too.

Password reuse is a terrible idea. :(
 
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