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powerboatr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:23 pm

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:27 pm

Rafe wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:14 pm

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:56 am
Lots and lots of creative criminals on the internet.

Yep; and we didn't mention another local-computer favorite: Trojan key-loggers.

I had to answer a call... busy morning.
Thanks for the added info... Great reminder on WiFi encryption. I had to double check that "Low" risk uses WPA2 on my router.

me to and we did just did the change password drill. my government accounts are sticklers for length and odd characters.
but my wifi is blocked by all the metal in the house form getting past the door

My government passwords are annoying as all get out. I have to change it every other month and can't use the same password twice. I make really strong passwords (alphanumeric and special character at least 20 characters long) and it gets really difficult to make up and remember new ones in the frequency they want me to. Most of my coworkers either write theirs down, or save it to their phones. These choices are a bigger security vulnerability than keeping the same password for a longer length of time.

Several Years ago, My wife locked herself out of her computer. She told me it was 4 digits all numbers. She thought the first number was "3". I spent 2 and a half days trying to brute force it the old fashioned way. (0001, 0002, 0003, ect.) I was somewhere in the mid 5000s when I got frustrated and started exploring the "darker" side of the internet. Within 5 minutes, I had a program that could get into her computer. It took a little tweaking to figure it out, but after messing around for another 10 minutes, I learned how to work it. I downloaded it to a usb, plugged it into her computer, and had the password in less than 30 seconds. The funny/annoying thing is...Her password was 5 digits.