So you follow the usual advice and have a password which includes capital and small letters, some digits and special characters such as “$” or “%”? You substitute “3″ for “e” and “1″ for “i” in a word and add a numerical suffix, such as a ZIP-code to it?
Not good enough, says Bruce Schneier in Wired. It might work where you only get three guesses at an ATM, but it isn’t going to save your bacon if someone is trying to get access to a password protected file or account, where they can try thousands or hundreds of thousands of passwords each second.
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