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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