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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: G The Resurrected on February 14, 2014, 04:59:17 AM

Title: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 14, 2014, 04:59:17 AM

So I'm just wondering how secure do you feel on the net? What precautions do you take to keep yourself safe. Do you use a encryption, proxy, HTTPS, virtual credit cards, password managers? I bring this up cause I was talking to someone about their site and how unsecure it was and their corresponding script in their app writing all data without encryption of any type. Stating that if there was someone willing to go through the work of getting the data that it was fine. I don't like thinking about how much information is just out there, but its the reality of the net.

One of the biggest flaws we have are passwords, how well does yours stack up?
https://howsecureismypassword.net/ (https://howsecureismypassword.net/)

(http://i.imgur.com/Tjp6P3Hl.png)

I don't want to believe it. I imagine a large network of computers could probably crack it in a short amount of time.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 14, 2014, 09:02:09 AM

11 minutes :'(

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: archnemesis on February 14, 2014, 09:07:10 AM

Are you guys posting your passwords on a random site on the Internet? Did you check the code yourselves or do you trust the disclaimer?

Just make sure you have a separate password for every site and use two-step verification for anything that's important.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 14, 2014, 09:42:33 AM

It's not like the site has any way of knowing what the password is used for, or what username it would need to be paired with.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 14, 2014, 09:44:07 AM

Seems like a good way to build a database for brute forcing passwords though :lol

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Fifstar on February 14, 2014, 10:33:21 AM

Or what type of patterns people use to make their passwords...

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Raban on February 14, 2014, 10:47:59 AM

25 thousand years. Any combination of caps and lowercase letters with numbers seems solid.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 14, 2014, 10:49:56 AM

Your password would be cracked almost Instantly

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Tasty on February 14, 2014, 10:54:29 AM

13 days.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Atramental on February 14, 2014, 10:55:25 AM

94 sextillion years  (http://i.imgur.com/kDwA9.png)

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Rufus on February 14, 2014, 03:13:05 PM

I use KeePass to generate and manage my passwords. I know exactly two passwords: the one to my Dropbox and the one to my KeePass database.

Come to think of it, I should probably add my email to that, in case I lose my KeePass database somehow...

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Steve Contra on February 14, 2014, 03:33:43 PM

194 septillion years bitches

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: cool breeze on February 14, 2014, 03:39:13 PM

buttsniffer takes 10 days
Buttsniffer takes 59 years

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Rufus on February 14, 2014, 03:43:26 PM

Buttsniff3r takes 412 years
Butt sniff3r takes 631 thousand years

A password I use takes 57 duodecillion years. :smug

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: nudemacusers on February 15, 2014, 12:10:23 AM

weird, my social security number takes about 2 seconds, but my full name takes 655 million years. I guess I'll stop using the former as a password I guess.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Rufus on February 15, 2014, 12:12:48 AM

Spaces seem to add a LOT of time for some reason.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 15, 2014, 12:17:03 AM

What kind of freak puts spaces in their passwords?  All the cool kids camel hump.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 15, 2014, 12:20:02 AM

And no Wrath, that kind of camel hump doesn't make you cool.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: StealthFan on February 15, 2014, 12:20:09 AM

25 thousand years.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Rufus on February 15, 2014, 12:23:22 AM

 :wtf

We don't have enough smilies that express confusion.

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: BlackMage on February 15, 2014, 12:28:00 AM

"crackmepls" takes nine hours.. damn.. I really need to change my passwords  :'(

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: Hock on February 15, 2014, 02:50:07 AM

8 sextillion sexagintillion years

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 15, 2014, 04:36:27 AM

My backdoor is always open ...

Title: Re: How secure are you on the net?
Post by: chronovore on February 15, 2014, 06:57:49 AM

I sometimes worry, when I can't get into a site right off, if the server is logging every password I've attempted... Because those are all me passwords for other sites.