Protecting Your Account: Passwords
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For those who are lazy, here is a very helpful PM I recieved. Special Special thanks to bokuwaomar. bokuwaomar said: " Jun 26, 6:59pm I use this website to generate passwords for maple and other things. I genearally go with the "63 random printable ASCII characters" whenever possible because my memory is just that good." Also, my best method of Password Protection is the Miykops. Press CTRL + F (IE and Firefox compatible not sure about other browsers) and punch in Miykop, it will scroll down to there. Contents- = 1. Introduction- = 2. Creating a Healthy Password- - a. Length- - b. Characters/Alphanumeric- - c. Personal Information- - d. Dictionary-Able Words; avoid them- - e. Miykops- = 3. Maintaining Your Healthy Password- - a. Typing It In- - b. Changing The Password- = 4. Conclusion- - a. Concluding Statement- - b. BUG REPORTING (Free Cookie)- = 5. Special Thanks- = 6. Special Idiots- So, without further ado~ 1. Introduction- Welcome to my thread for Password Protection-. In this thread, I'll go over the tips to protecting your password that I can think up on the spot. If anybody has any suggestions, PM me. If you have any questions, PM me also. I hope you get something good out of this thread ^^ 2. Creating a Healthy Password- a. Length- When selecting a password, length is a crucial issue. If your password is too short, people have a much higher chance of guessing it/watching what you are typing in and can make out the gist of your password. The longer your password, the more ideal it is. Your password should have at least 6 characters, but going to the maximum amount of characters is reccomended. b. Characters/Alphanumeric- Characters. Basically you need to have a broad range of characters, not something easily identifiable. qwerty, nnnnnnnn, 123456, are horrible examples of passwords. You need to include numeric AND Alphanumeric characters in your password for it to be strong. For people who can't be bothered clicking on the Alphanumeric link, examples are !@#, and so on. Basil doesn't let you post some, so I won't list them all. Also note that most "Password-Input-Boxes" are Case-Sensitive. Adding even one capital can help, because people cannot often see the Shift/CapsLock keys being tapped. c. Personal Information- AVOID USING PERSONAL INFORMATION IN PASSWORDS, it will REALLY come back to haunt you. People who steal indentities already know your password! Don't use numbers such as bank pins, in-game pins, or anything of the sort. People who know this can acess your account. Those people who know that are likely to be trusted family/friends. But what do all the stories of "I got hacked ong" come from? Trusting people. Don't trust ANYONE with personal information. WATCH OUT: even USERNAMES can be beaten if a hacker has them! Don't EVER trust a Zakum Helmet Seller to go on your account. Who knows, the information could be leeked through they're leeber firewall over the net from the .txt file with user information, so a hacker has them. Or the seller could go corrupt before he quits MS. d. Dictionary-able Words; AVOID THEM- Password hacking programs such as GASP. Link Removed by TSer. Read down on Page 1. will pick all of these up [I am pretty sure, it's logical isn't it?]. Either way, don't use these because people will try to make sense of the jumble of characters as they watch you type in your password. They will most likely sound it out and link it to something they can associate with, such as a proper word in a language. Beware Zakum Helmet Sellers: Usernames can be leaked and you; passcracked. Never, Ever, EVER give out ANY of your personal information. e. Miykops- Miykops are basically a mnemonic (Pronounced New-Mohn-ick). An well-remembered phrase is turned into a form that only the creator can use. An example: My Daughter Mary Is 11 Years Old. In this example, use the first letters of each word to produce: mdmi11yo. Who could guess that, eh? Use numerics wherever possible, because it makes it one step harder for passcrackers and onlookers to see what you are typing. Try to even include an E-Mail Adress, beacuse all E-Mail adresses have an @ which makes it ANOTHER step harder to pinpoint. People onlooking might not notice you have the shift key held while you press 2. 3. Maintaining Your Healthy Password- a. Typing it In- Don't let anybody see. If a trusted friend is in the room, make them leave. Even if someone has absolutely no interested in MapleStory, they might have friends who do and he may use you. Of course, he is not suspected beacuse he doesn't identify with MapleStory. So just be careful. Your parents are probably the only people you can trust. Sibblings are evil. b. Changing the Password- Ah, the most crucial part of passwords; Changing them. You should change your password at least 10 times a year! That way anybody who has your password looses all acess to your account. 4. Conclusion- a. Thanks Babe Thanks for reading this thread. Sorry my examples are a little corny, but you'll manage. Please remember that if this helped you, please SAY SO and give it an award. That way, this might become stickied ^_^. b. BUG REPORTING Please PM me over them, save the Post-Spaces for people to post other information and queries rather than it being filled with irrelevant information to the consumer. List of helpful quotes at the bottom, as submitted by you [via pm] BTW, I'm updating this thread to make it as readable as possible. PM me with suggestions on how i can improve this thread!~ 5. Special Thanks- - MissElwing MissElwing said: " May 21, 2:27am You didn't put the exact ones, and you really think most of the maple population is going to understand "alphanumeric"? Most of the time when i end up explaining even simple things like this to people on maple, i seriously have to word it out as simple and direct, as if speaking to a 6 year old. Out of the few that actually read it, instead of calling it too long, a lot of kids will skin read, and miss that part, or have little knowledge as to what alphanumerical means, and likely not click the link. But I'd rather not get into a debate on community here, and you still need to add, not to put "ilove-dates name-" as the password. Your examples only included not using multi of the same letter / number in a row, or a run of numbers / letters going up, not using single words such as "password" or your dates name, and a lot of kids will not connect to the fact, that whoever they're dating is still personal info. I've had enough experience dealing with kids who think passwords like that are safe irl, and trying to explain to them why they lost their accounts, when they had passwords they thought were hard to guess." - Vespeh Vespeh said: "Bit paranoid changing your PW so often. I haven't changed it once. Best way to make sure your account stays safe is dont give out your info." fenneck fenneck said: " May 23, 9:37am I read your guide on password strength. What I would do is go to this website. link It is a random string generator meaning that it can use any combination of letter and numbers. It is really good for passwords. What I would do is change the string a little so it can't be found." Hastened Hastened said: "The best passwords have unicode or non-american symbols in it, do you know how long it would take for a rainbow hash to crack it? examples are the ü, ҉ , and ئ. G'day" hwan2189 hwan2189 said: "Best Password: ss8ss6f9w Having two letters the same in the row makes people hard to notice that you typed the letter twice." vipuladusa vipuladusa said: " May 24, 7:14am Another tip. Don't use your basil/forum id as the same thing as your game ID. Many people knew Tiger's login that way, which is FierceTiger. Even if they know your id only, don't get too easy on it. People can easily use a bruteforce p/w cracker and get your password, and soon on, your pin and can then access the game. Hope I helped xP" TrappaKeepa TrappaKeepa said: "Changing a password is not always the smartest thing to do. Some studies have shown that in workplaces where password changes were mandatory, people on average picked weaker passwords compared to places where there was no policy enforced. The added security from rotating passwords is negated by the fact that the passwords are easier to guess. Since any password is weak against social engineering, it is best to use a singe very strong password and guard it with your life. At least with a strong password, you'll be safe against guessing and other technological measures." Special Idiot icemage07 icemage07 said: "excellent guide... the only problem is: Hackers (not script kiddies/hacker wanna-bees) usually have their own password hack program that would simply try all the combinations possible until they find the password. (why do it manually if a computer can do it for you?) I just made a simple program that tells the time required to hack one's password (yea, im bit lazy to do all the calculations myself...) here's the results: Suppose a hacker has a computer performing 100 billion calculations per second and that the password is a random string that contain at most 64 different characters, including 26 different letters, 26 different capital letters, 10 different digits, the underscore symbol and hyphen. Then it would take at most... 0.0107374 second to hack a password with length 5 0.687195 second to hack a password with length 6 43.9805 seconds to hack a password with length 7 46.9125 minutes to hack a password with length 8 50.04 hours, roughly 2 days to hack a password with length 9 4.448 months to hack a password with length 10 roughly 23.7 years (roughly 2 decades) to hack a password with length 11 roughly 151.8 decades (roughly 15.2 centuries) to hack a password with lenght 12 (i.e. not in his lifetime) Password should have AT LEAST 10 characters in length. Using a password that does not contain any word from the dictionary or simple "1337 words", such as p455w012d, and length 10-12 greatly decreases the chances of your account being hacked." jooci.deviantart.com
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Bit paranoid changing your PW so often. I haven't changed it once.Best way to make sure your account stays safe is dont give out your info. Listing: R> GOPQ
tell them about keylogs and stuff, having a healthy pw dont do anything .... except protect it from ur friendseven with a highly un-guessable pw, with a simple hacking programing u may get the pw instantly. or just write them a password generator lol hmm speaking of that, where did my password generator go, the one i wrote for assignment which i got helped in doing since it was way too hard beyong my level of thinking lol.
I included cautions about programs that crack passwords already
on my old nooby accountmy password was password xp New Pic: GM 3
You would have to have a really stupid password to get hacked.
nice job every1 post to help keep bumped! New Pic: BrningIce
Best pass is " 123456"!
ImVidictive said: "Do you really need advice on how to construct your password? Seriously just take a simple word like coke and move your hand 1 key up, and 1 to the right and follow the same exact key strokes to get coke. In this example it would be d9i3. Who would guess that? Technically the keyboard set up, at least that I have has the top row slightly maybe a 1/3 of an inch farther then the button before it forming such a pyramid formation. Looks like this: ------------------ ---------------- -------------- This is simply the letter rows the # row follows the same pattern. I doubt we need half a page to define on how to make a password unless you are really THAT idioitic." Majority of basil is idiotic. Answer your question?
Let's look at it at the probability and combinations point of viewa. Length- - There are 26 letters and 10 numbers to choose from - That is a total of 36 different characters to be chosen from - Let's just say the most ideal number of characters in the password is 12 characters - Let's just say that all letters and numbers can be repeated, then we will have a 36C12 = 9657700 combinations
imppy725 said: "Let's look at it at the probability and combinations point of view a. Length- - There are 26 letters and 10 numbers to choose from - That is a total of 36 different characters to be chosen from - Let's just say the most ideal number of characters in the password is 12 characters - Let's just say that all letters and numbers can be repeated, then we will have a 36C12 = 9657700 combinations" You forgot Alphanumeric Characters.
This post will most likely give people an obsessive paranoia against their family and friends.
you said most password boxes are case sensitive. is maple's pw box case sensitive?
I believe Maple passwords don't let you use special characters. I was gonna use one of my old email passwords for it but it didn't allow it...Also for the dude that said 36 C 12. You gotta double the letters because it's case sensitive. 52 actual letter choices. So its 62 C 12.
southstar052 said: "I believe Maple passwords don't let you use special characters. I was gonna use one of my old email passwords for it but it didn't allow it... Also for the dude that said 36 C 12. You gotta double the letters because it's case sensitive. 52 actual letter choices. So its 62 C 12." Maple Passwords do. I dont think it allows the Greater Than and Less Than signs, like basil. And correct with the case-sensitivity.
nice way to get a good password... |
