metatron Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Yeah I think you can but you can pick up a USB fingerprint scanner for £40 and with a little work you can get it to work with Linux and OSX, they will work with windows out of the box. You can also pick up a keyboard with a fingerprint scanner built in for £50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 hmmm ill have too look into this, will stop my little shit brother getting on my pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I prefer to use words that are easy to remember. Like my first name, or my dogs name. Even better is my favorite movie, or my mom's maiden name. Examples of good passwords:12345 password harrison isabella five smile dictionary Try those out and see how they work for you :) Make sure you set your passphrase to never expire LMFAO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khipset Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I am a lazy SOB and am not into the whole special charcter thing. But, what I do is: take the name of someone I know I will remember. Take each letter of their name, find out the corresponding number of the alphabet, and convert each letter's number to hex. And BAM! Theres your password. For Example: Say I have a thing for this lass named "Raven Riley," here is what it would look like: End Result: 121165E129C519 Dumb? Probably, but it makes me feel special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 What I do is take a phrase and other things around me that means something to me and mix it up with a combo of leet speak and special characters. One password that I used to use was designed like this: Lets say I drive a 98 Chevy Impala One method to enter programing mode to an older phone system I used to work on at a place I'll call MS. so my password ended up being something like 98ch3/y#0*4M$ Then I would apply a portion of this passowrd to other sites. example: ebay would be something like eb98ch3/y or yahoo would be yh#0*4M$ This is just one scheme I have used over time. I have used several password cracking tools to test the strenghth of my own passwords and every password in current use that I have doesn't crack easily without a long period of time. Afterall, if someone (or a group of someones) has enough time, almost any password is crackable. Another thing that I can add, which has already been stated once or twice is to use an alt + sequence to create a truely special character that is even harder to crack. My real passwords are also usually at least 14 characters (not including spaces) for my workstation(s) but server admin accounts are always longer if/when I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 On a crap machine that I didn't care about and always wanted to login to quickly, my password was "" Because on a QWERTY keyboard the key is right above enter, so its a single keystroke to login. Very lame, very insecure, and guess what? rainbow crack with the most basic char set couldnt crack it. the chr wasnt in the table. yeah, I know, very very basic chr set. it think it was only 400MB and covered alphanumeric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Actually on a UK keyboard the '' is above the left-windows key :) The key above Enter on ours is the backspace key... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetelectric Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 how bout this: mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForsetiAvatar Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND£= ALT+0163 Actually in this case, Character Map is your friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 However, Charmap isn't really very easy to get to if this is your network or system password... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khipset Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 However, Charmap isn't really very easy to get to if this is your network or system password... ;) I love you moonlit... its like... I don't have to say anything anymore, you know exactly what I am thinking. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 :D Well, it's not exactly a big stretch of the mind, eh? ;) I've had enough people tell me that before though, it's not necessarily bad or good, just occasionally useful :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 fGd59#%5$fFffrg98*-+.fsdfFIOASfASFi463f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ Guy :D Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 well heres now i came up with mine, i took a random word that i could remember then used md5 to hash it, then i just remembered the hash and i vary the length depending on the importance, so 8-32chars, i also mix in a pattern of shifts + key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmp79 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 If you have issues remembering long password that do not make sence here is a tip I would offer. Right now I look around the room for a random item the first thing that caught my eye was a lampshade. So I am going to make the word lampshade more secure. While I was typing this it was 7:27 so I am going to use the number 27 as well. I would then make the password something like this. L@m9^27^$haD3 It is 13 characters uses capital and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Opinions on how secure the password is and the method of creation are welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiLe Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 cmp79: That's not a bad way to do it, but people might forget what time it was or what item. My method... MEMORIZE IT, DAMNIT! For the longest time this was my 16-character password: OrJozvNfcNbaSOVu I don't use it anymore, don't even try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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