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How Secure Is My Password?

Test Your Password Strength at How Secure Is my password

The folks over at Lifehacker have found another great site for us to talk about.

How Secure Is My Password is a no-frills password checker that dishes the dirt 
on your password strength or lack there of.

How Secure Is My Password is a simple site with a singular focus, forcing you 
to think about the strength of your passwords. Enter any string of characters 
and it will tell you how long a brute force attack against that password would 
take using modern computers.

NOTE: For the sake of security, we'd strongly recommend constructing fake 
passwords for testing purposes rather than using your actual password. Consider 
the site an interesting exercise about how adding a few characters and symbols 
to your password can increase its security. You can never be too paranoid about 
security!

Simple passwords like "Password" are immediately flagged as weak, identified as 
one of the most 500 common passwords. Plug in something a little trickier like 
RedDogLa$er4225#Niner and you get a nice comforting response "It would take 
about 7 septillion years for a desktop PC to crack your password".

Click this link to visit:

http://HowSecureIsMyPassword.net

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Helping Hands for the Blind
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