The former DownloadSquad points out howsecureismypassword.net. How secure is my password is basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from “weak” to “strong”, it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That’s a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.
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How secure is my password helps make password best practices meaningful.
For example, when I entered “Detroit”, it came back with “your password is one of the 1090 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly. “D3troit!” would take 57 days, and “!D3tro1tM!” would take 928 years to crack.
Password best practices include using:
8 or more characters, that is not a dictionary word, which includes capital letters, digits, and a symbol or two.
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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.