[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords.

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Ryan wrote:

>It appears someone is cracking easily-guessable passwords of accounts
>on Wikipedia. Until measures are undertaken to check all accounts for
>weak passwords and make people use stronger passwords, I encourage
>everyone whose password is 'weak' to log in now and change your
>password to something stronger.
>
>Here are some tips for strong passwords:
>
>* Don't use words you would find in the dictionary.
>* Don't use 'password' or something like that for your password.
>* Don't use a derivative of your username as a password.
>* Don't use something like "god" or "fuckyou". They really are very
>common as passwords.
>* Don't use the same password as you use for other sites or your email.
>* Use a mix of upper case and lower case letters.
>* Use symbols and numbers.
>* Make it at least 8 characters long.
>
>I hope this is a help to someone.
>

:-D
It only helps to guarantee that anyone following all these steps will 
never remember a damn one.

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