[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords.

[Mark Ryan]

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.

~Mark Ryan