Comments on: Christian University Hacked, Compromised Passwords Used for Facebook

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By: @johnko76

@johnko76 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:21:24 +0000

working of the main post's suggestion. you can take a password – e.g. sunlight and then add to the beginning and end of it based on the website url (like the first and last letter of the main URL). for a website like facebook

By: @karlfisher

@karlfisher — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:44:34 +0000

i have two basic passwords depending on the website; one for sites that access financial data, and one for everything else.

By: Dlake108

Dlake108 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:42:47 +0000

I use 1Password and have used it several times to remember passwords for various accounts. It's been reliable and as often as I backup … the passwords are too.

By: Kevin_Martineau

Kevin_Martineau — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:22:11 +0000

I have been only using 1 password but I am going to take your password advice. Thanks for sharing it!

By: friar_don

friar_don — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:19:05 +0000

I have a rotation of about five passwords (up from three last year). I am not sure if this is safe or not….

By: IcemanYVR

IcemanYVR — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:54:25 +0000

I have three levels of passwords that I use, one for internet groups and forums, another one for stores and sites (like Facebook, etc) that store personal information, and another for online banking, etc…

I have found that it seems to work pretty well, but you still need to be careful and create passwords that follow the case, numbers, and letter rules, and of course, not inadvertently give them out to phishing sites.

By: ryanbrymer

ryanbrymer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:37:27 +0000

I've just started using a new password. It's "rb37… hey, wait a minute. I'm on to your trickery!

By: Steven Rossi

Steven Rossi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Lately I’ve been using unique passwords for every site. I use 1Password, and it generates and stores them for me. Before that I used a technique thy went something like this (using Gmail as an example):

first letter of service, capitalized (G)
number of letters in name of service (5)
one letter after second letter in service (n)
one letter before second letter in service (l)
last letter in service (l)
order in alphabet of last letter in service (12)

For a combined result of G5nll12.

But I prefer to just generate and save them. It saves me the effort of having to think through it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:44:32 +0000

You have a great point that most 'forgotten email systems' email a new password, meaning if someone can crack your email password they can get access to just about every other account you may have with ease. I am guilty of using the same rather complex password for everything which I may begin changing soon so that I am a bit more protected.