Original Post
Password expirations and compromised accounts
Hello,
Users are now required to change their passwords every 365 days (I believe the technical term for this is a "year"). This is for your own protection; good account security involves regularly changing your password. If you receive a notice that your password has expired, please change it to something new.
On a related note, if you received a notice saying your account was logged into from Germany and you got banned, your account was compromised and banned for its own security (The related breach has since been neutralized). Please follow the instructions and contact [email protected] to recover your account (And again, please change to a different password). See this thread for additional information.
Thanks,
The Management
ADDENDUM:
Chozo says,
Any further posts that appear to be flaunting how they have shit password security and how they're awesome for not getting hacked even with such idiotic practices will get their accounts suspended because there's a high probability that your accounts will end up getting hacked and generate extra work for us anyways.
Seriously, it's not a positive thing to be retarded at keeping your account safe.
ADDENDUM:
suomynona says,
Read the entire thread before posting.
I will ban anyone who obviously didn't. Thank you.
Users are now required to change their passwords every 365 days (I believe the technical term for this is a "year"). This is for your own protection; good account security involves regularly changing your password. If you receive a notice that your password has expired, please change it to something new.
On a related note, if you received a notice saying your account was logged into from Germany and you got banned, your account was compromised and banned for its own security (The related breach has since been neutralized). Please follow the instructions and contact [email protected] to recover your account (And again, please change to a different password). See this thread for additional information.
Thanks,
The Management
ADDENDUM:
Chozo says,
Any further posts that appear to be flaunting how they have shit password security and how they're awesome for not getting hacked even with such idiotic practices will get their accounts suspended because there's a high probability that your accounts will end up getting hacked and generate extra work for us anyways.
Seriously, it's not a positive thing to be retarded at keeping your account safe.
ADDENDUM:
suomynona says,
Read the entire thread before posting.
I will ban anyone who obviously didn't. Thank you.
Last edited by suomynona; Jul 30, 2011 at 06:25 PM.
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Originally Posted by Spartan094
Reading the thread would have been helpful in more than one way.
Anyways, one method I like is to pick an easy medium length word, but when you type it move both hands one key towards the middle
For example:
Watermelon
becomes
Esyrtnrkib
Maybe throw some numbers at the end and you're set.
I have in the past used the following system, just pick any two words and separate them with the space, surprisingly these passwords take a very, very long time to crack. Dictionary crackers only check for full words as a password, so two words fools them, and brute forcing longer passwords takes a longer time, thus "Edwardian Jelly Beans" would take a ton longer than "Esyrtnrkib", and is many times easier to remember. (Note, the service doesn't allow spaces, periods and so forth are a fine replacement.)
