Super-Secure Code - Sort Of
Nov 9, 2016 06:53:56 #
In a TV show I watched last night, an agent had to open a door guarding something very top secret. The agent said, "This could take some time. I have to enter a fifty-digit code." How's that for security! Let's see the hackers break that. Then he took out a card with the code written on it and began entering numbers. 
Nov 9, 2016 07:01:46 #
Another scorpion watcher I see. Kind of a fun show, we watch it too. I'd either forget the numbers or loose whatever I had written it on. Four digit codes are getting close to my limit.
Nov 9, 2016 07:06:56 #
pdsdville wrote:
Another scorpion watcher I see. Kind of a fun show, we watch it too. I'd either forget the numbers or loose whatever I had written it on. Four digit codes are getting close to my limit.
Yes, a Scorpion watcher. I wish they'd get off all that social interaction within the group.
Nov 9, 2016 09:10:32 #
I was appointed as the NCOIC of a Special Security Office at Ft Detrick, MD for General O'Riley because the previous one dropped the combinations for several safes in the Special Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at a local restaurant.
Sarge69
Sarge69
Nov 9, 2016 09:17:33 #
sarge69 wrote:
I was appointed as the NCOIC of a Special Security Office at Ft Detrick, MD for General O'Riley because the previous one dropped the combinations for several safes in the Special Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at a local restaurant.
Sarge69
Sarge69
Funny - sort of.
Nov 10, 2016 00:04:44 #
I'm getting better at building long passwords these days, since they want you to have a capital letter, a number, a punctuation mark, a smiley face, Prince's name symbol, and an Egyptian petroglyph in it.
Nov 10, 2016 00:25:53 #
I remember pi to more than 50 places past the decimal point. But I'd certainly hate to have to enter such a long string of numbers.
Nov 10, 2016 07:09:42 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In a TV show I watched last night, an agent had to open a door guarding something very top secret. The agent said, "This could take some time. I have to enter a fifty-digit code." How's that for security! Let's see the hackers break that. Then he took out a card with the code written on it and began entering numbers.
I learned in a recent college computer class how long programs take to attain different lengths passwords. I wished I knew where to look up the stats, but 50 characters would take many many years! It was hard to believe how fast the shorter (6 characters, or less) passwords could be hacked.
Marion
Nov 10, 2016 08:30:43 #
Earworms wrote:
I remember pi to more than 50 places past the decimal point. But I'd certainly hate to have to enter such a long string of numbers.
Excellent! That will come in handy throughout your day. I get by with 3.1415.
Nov 10, 2016 08:35:18 #
Marionsho wrote:
I learned in a recent college computer class how long programs take to attain different lengths passwords. I wished I knew where to look up the stats, but 50 characters would take many many years! It was hard to believe how fast the shorter (6 characters, or less) passwords could be hacked.
Marion
Marion
The best system I hard about for a long P/W is a sentence, but use just the first letter. "Time and tide wait for no man" would give you > t&Twfnm - or something similar with numbers thrown in. I use LastPass, but sometimes it doesn't recognize an entry form, and I'm not going to be able to memorize something like q6mgAhi4cy11 for a dozen different sites.
Nov 10, 2016 08:38:01 #
I forget where I read it, but it said that if you use a password like " Iwantottakeawalk" It is harder to crack that numbers and capital letters and other things.
Nov 10, 2016 08:41:24 #
tenbanshee wrote:
I forget where I read it, but it said that if you use a password like " Iwantottakeawalk" It is harder to crack that numbers and capital letters and other things.
Sounds good. Until the program forces you to include a cap., number, special character, etc.
Nov 10, 2016 08:51:25 #
jerryc41 wrote:
In a TV show I watched last night, an agent had to open a door guarding something very top secret. The agent said, "This could take some time. I have to enter a fifty-digit code." How's that for security! Let's see the hackers break that. Then he took out a card with the code written on it and began entering numbers.
Yep, I saw that too - but if you watched closely, he didn't enter anything like that many numbers! I figured he had maybe misspoke, and should have said 15 digits... Seems to me, any code which needs to be written down is far less secure than a simple 4-digit number...
I like the show, and have watched it from the beginning, but it is starting to get more ridiculous as it goes on. They end up in more and more dire situations, then at the last minute find some implausible way out. The worst case was when they brought the guy back from a satellite with no parachute, but this week's was also a bit too easy at the Chinese embassy - "you give us back our people and you can have your laptop...", "Ok!".
Nov 10, 2016 08:54:30 #
Marionsho wrote:
Sounds good. Until the program forces you to include a cap., number, special character, etc.
I agree. I use RoboForm to generate strong passwords on the computer, and you can set it to match whatever silly rules the site requires. It then remembers and fills in the signin forms automatically for you. Great until you hit a site which doesn't allow it to run. Even worse on a site where you also have to log in with a cellphone!
Nov 10, 2016 08:58:41 #
Bloke wrote:
I like the show, and have watched it from the beginning, but it is starting to get more ridiculous as it goes on.
Definitely, more ridiculous and unrealistic, but that's TV. I'd like to see less romance and more realistic situations.
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