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my current password before it was changed by poseldon, was z1x2c3v4b5n6.
even if you bruteforce, it's gonna take months or maybe longer.
Ok I'll go ahead an tell everyone here that passwords like that are
NOT good. With a brute force it
does not take months to find a password like that.
There are lists of passwords of "easy combinations" people choose for hackers to use as part of the dictionary bruteforce program. Combinations such as:
1q2w3e4r5t6y
q1w2e3r4t5y6
1a2s3d4f5g6h
a1s2d3f4g5h6
1z2x3c4v5b6n
z1x2c3v4b5n6 <-- Oh wait, how did I come up with this one!
qwerty
asdfgh
....
Are part of the dictionaries because they are stronger than regular passwords, but are easy to come up with.
People don't realize this though, I had a friend give me his account info and his pass was one of those combinations.
If you use a "pattern" make sure it's not an OBVIOUS pattern or a sequential pattern (i.e. all across like qwe or all down like 1qa).
I know for a fact anything you do in software is really based on two things, skill and luck. Until I see these so called hackers "hack me" [not like I have anything of value] (and no, not keylog, but HACK), then I'm still going to say, they just got lucky".
I'm not going to say there aren't talented individuals that can do the real bad stuff, because there always are, but for the majority of these "hacked" stories, it's due to owner
negligence and
ignorance.