[Fredslist] A cyber service announcement on passwords

[Andrew Lavin]

Good morning all of you who are comfortably assured that your passwords are easy enough to remember and hard enough to be hackable.  Here’s a site zxcvbn <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html> that will tell you how long a somewhat skilled hacker will take to hack your password. GULP!

Sometimes the facts are frightening, but hopefully we learn from them.

Here’s the entire article. 
https://securethoughts.com/create-the-perfect-password/

Andy




Andrew Lavin
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