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If you opened a paypal account before you were 18, close it now.
Trogtor:
a 'guessing bot' trying to get into your account seems really impractical and I don't understand why making ridiculously long passwords are necessary
Conan:
--- Quote from: Trogtor on May 01, 2017, 02:39:57 PM ---a 'guessing bot' trying to get into your account seems really impractical and I don't understand why making ridiculously long passwords are necessary
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not as impractical as it sounds when bots have databases of leaked passwords and emails/usernames from hacked providers to use, or know that an account they are trying to break into is an admin account.
raw random guessing is pretty rare, admittedly
Trogtor:
exactly, why hassle yourself with ridiculous passwords when there's a higher chance of it getting breached by a method much more effective? unless I'm wrong, websites nowadays limit your login attempts so a bot would be cut off from logging in before it gets even close to a password considered weak
Pecon:
--- Quote from: Trogtor on May 01, 2017, 02:50:28 PM ---exactly, why hassle yourself with ridiculous passwords when there's a higher chance of it getting breached by a method much more effective? unless I'm wrong, websites nowadays limit your login attempts so a bot would be cut off from logging in before it gets even close to a password considered weak
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Most services also hash your password to protect it in the case of a breach. As your password is longer, it gets exponentially harder to determine it via a hash. That is why you use long passwords, weak passwords will be broken and they'll end up gaining access to all the accounts you used that password on (also why you should use unique passwords for all the accounts you can, password managers are saviors).
--- Quote from: RedGajin on May 01, 2017, 02:35:37 PM ---i guess i worded that weird lol, i was just adding on that if the passwords were encrypted within the database (not hashed) itd still be easy to decrypt them
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Password hashing is standard now.