Help with someones ID please

[blackrosenova400]

Originally Posted by cmspaz

Yeah, use different passwords for stuff, and make sure they're secure ones. Even one number goes a long way. If you must reuse passwords (due to memory or whatever) be very careful not to get caught by phishing sites, they'll be able to completely screw you over. Still, using only one password that's fairly secure is so much better than using more than one and having to write them all down.

Remember, dsmlol isn't even half as secure as dsm101. Simple math tells you for a 6 digit password, changing 3 letters to 3 numbers means they'd have to go through 511110080 more permutations to brute force it.

How can that be? Theres 26 options or letters to the alphabet and 10 options 0-9, unless someone were to guess (lol).

[tpunx99GSX]

Originally Posted by blackrosenova400

How can that be? Theres 26 options or letters to the alphabet and 10 options 0-9, unless someone were to guess (lol).

Because instead of 26 possible letters per space, you have 36 possible options because you are adding 10 numbers.
So if you do the math, it would be 36*36*36*36*36*36 for a 6 digit password. Which would actually be 2,176,782,336 possible solutions as opposed to 308,915,776 (26*26*26*26*26*26) the difference 1,867,866,560 possible solutions difference.
When ever i am securing a Server with new passwords i always use Upper Case, lower case, numbers and symbols. Which ends up being a crap load more. But most websites disregard upper and lower.
not sure how spaz got his number.