Author: Jim Bell
Date: 12:23:28 02/03/04
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On February 03, 2004 at 15:14:20, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 03, 2004 at 14:49:39, Jim Bell wrote: > >>My name is on message 346743 (2/03/2004 05:56:08), but I didn't post it. I have >>never revealed my password to anyone, so I don't know how this was done. The >>message wasn't even offensive. I have e-mailed the moderators and changed my >>password. >> >>Jim Bell 1.0 > >It's probably swami trying to give the false impression that at least one person >isn't for him being banned permanently. That comment that it should be "handled >privately" is something he has said many times before in regards to his illegal >software theft. > >Everyone should beef up their password. Avoid anything that might be in any list >or database, like names, words in any dictionary (in any language), your child's >birthdate (or any other date), popular bible verses (ex. "john316"), or anything >else that might make its way into a "popular password" list. Mix letters and >numbers, the longer the password the better, and for websites that will allow >it, use non-alphanumeric characters like punctuation marks, spaces, and so on >(CCC allows this). > >Even a good 6 letter password would require several hundred trillion (that's >trillion, with a T) guesses to get it right. That's going to take a _long_ time. >If someone *only* has to guess a few hundred thousand times (like all English >words, popular names, common passwords, etc.), that can be done in a reasonable >time (hours, days, or weeks, depending upon the circumstances). I don't think that someone could have guessed my password: I was still using the 5-letter seemingly random password that was originally assigned to me when I joined the CCC. Jim
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