alan14

That obviously gives a stronger password than many but I'm surprised at an expert suggesting using 1 and 0 instead of i and o. Surely that is so obvious the professional bad boys must have it in their hacking software.

john bunyan

I would never use anything that automated password entry or form filling. I do use a little free application called KeePass which stores my passwords very securely on a memory stick. I've used it for a while, and I have confidence in it - even if someone gets the memory stick they'll have a problem getting at my passwords which are encrypted using SHA-256 which is a 256-bit cryptographically secure one-way hash function.

To date there have been no known successful attacks against SHA-256.

'I don't have the time, and I can't for the life of me see the point of it all'

Exactly what I thought until I started using Twitter.

It's like all the conversations in a pub put together. Some are completely meaningless and some convey useful information or opinions.

People tend to focus on the meaningless because it is easy for some people to mock the idea that X million people are interested in what some reality show wannabee is doing.

Back in the '90s, I told my boss I couldn't see the point of the WWW because, at that time, I hadn't found things that I wanted to do with it.

I'm not proselytizing for Twitter; just saying that I've found it useful.

fourm member

But surely the fact that i & o are changed to 1 & 0 is only obvious if you know the password.