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How real is the threat of being hacked when gaming?
JoonasTo:
I prefer a piece of paper for password, unless someone breaks into your apartment, you're safe.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on March 28, 2013, 01:53:09 PM ---"sis" is a common slang, too common. the rest i don't know, i don't hack myself so yeah.
gpu accelerated rigs today can guess at a phase of over 1,000,000/sec, with a dictionary attack containing a billion words it'd take it 1000seconds to finish each word at worst case scenario.
so with a 4word max at 1000seconds each that'd take 4000seconds, less than a day.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/
to put things on a neutral here, i'm saying that don't build your password entirely out of words.
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That's so lol, windows passwords. Are we talking about the passwords that are stored in a non-encrypted, free of restrictions registry node? :)
There's no reason to crack a windows password as all you need to do is reset or replace it with one of your choosing. All you need is some form of access to the computer, physical/remote, power on/off doesn't matter. Only state I can think of that a windows computer is protected is when it's waiting for a login. :P
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on March 28, 2013, 02:24:25 PM ---I prefer a piece of paper for password, unless someone breaks into your apartment, you're safe.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on March 28, 2013, 01:53:09 PM ---"sis" is a common slang, too common. the rest i don't know, i don't hack myself so yeah.
gpu accelerated rigs today can guess at a phase of over 1,000,000/sec, with a dictionary attack containing a billion words it'd take it 1000seconds to finish each word at worst case scenario.
so with a 4word max at 1000seconds each that'd take 4000seconds, less than a day.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/
to put things on a neutral here, i'm saying that don't build your password entirely out of words.
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That's so lol, windows passwords. Are we talking about the passwords that are stored in a non-encrypted, free of restrictions registry node? :)
There's no reason to crack a windows password as all you need to do is reset or replace it with one of your choosing. All you need is some form of access to the computer, physical/remote, power on/off doesn't matter. Only state I can think of that a windows computer is protected is when it's waiting for a login. :P
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lol you obviously didn't read the article.
Remak:
--- Quote from: Xycolian2332 on March 28, 2013, 12:33:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 28, 2013, 12:31:09 PM ---Absolutely do not follow Tiffany's password advice. You will more likely lose the password yourself.
(click to show/hide)This advice is better:
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Tiff's advice is good if you're using LastPass, since you don't have to remember your passwords to begin with.
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I used lastpass once lol. Then I removed it when I decided I didn't like it and forgot to save my grooveshark password it generated (it was the only new acc I made). Now when I try to recover my password it says it sent an email but I don't get any email in my inbox or spam folder :-\.
JoonasTo:
Obviously not.
For my defense though, name of the article has nothing to do with the article itself.
buchno:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on March 28, 2013, 02:48:55 PM ---For my defense though, name of the article has nothing to do with the article itself.
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That's pretty common.
...at least in printed articles.
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