How to crack weak passwords

[tekio 81]

http://lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords?skyline=true&s=i

Fairly basic stuff, but still interesting. Sorry, if this article has already been posted, did a quick search and couldn't find anything.

[epew23 1]

The first guess about pet name childs name possibly fallowed by a 1 or 0. So true and he just cracked my mothers password haha!

i would be woried bout that haha. Case sensative and punctuation gets that pass quick tho.

pword gen

Brute force attack time estimator

Those are cool tools for protecting your stuff

my password was randomly generated and is 10 characters long with upper and lower case letters as well as 2 symbols and it only lasts 287.7 hours. still though thats 12 solid days haha

Edited April 7, 2010 by 5imp7y