With email and website passwords, are successful "brute force" attacks still common, where an automated bot tries thousands and thousands of passwords on the same user account until one works?
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posted by pete_22
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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Is Randall Munroe right about passwords in today's
xkcd? Are very long (all lower case) plain text passwords more secure than short ones using a mix of numerals and upper/lower case text?
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posted by Ahab
on Aug 10, 2011 -
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I want to access my personal diary from anywhere - and keep it as secure as possible at the same time. Here's my idea on how to do this...what do you think?
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posted by jspierre
on Jul 1, 2011 -
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Some websites I use log me in automatically (Facebook) with full access to the site. Some automatically log me on, but require PW confirmation if I want to do something that may potentially compromise my security (LinkedIn, Amazon). Some websites demand a login each time I access the page (banking/trading sites; some of which save my login ID, none of which save my PW).I know precious little about this stuff. Cookies, is it?
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posted by holterbarbour
on Mar 30, 2011 -
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I errantly deleted all of my saved usernames and passwords from Firefox. Is there any way to get them back?
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posted by sockpup
on Nov 17, 2009 -
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Why do an increasing number of e-commerce sites force me to set up an account, including an e-mail address and a password, as part of the checkout process.
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posted by alms
on Dec 27, 2008 -
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