“We can’t tell you who we are. Or where we live. It’s too risky, and we’ve got to be careful. Really careful. So we don’t trust anyone. Because if they find us… well, we just won’t let them find us..

The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.”

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Submitted by walkinginspace

Then you realize it’s for the table next to you…

Computer/Software security is a huge and continually evolving problem, and it is not going to get better anytime soon.  It is guaranteed that software developers will not spend enough time on the security of their software.  In some cases unfortunately, this is due to developer laziness/ignorance about what secure coding practices are.  In many cases though, there is simply not enough time for developers to ensure their software is secure.  People can complain about security vulnerabilities found in windows, flash, OSX, <insert software here>, but if developers were to spend all of their time making sure the software was secure, then one of the following would happen…

1. The software would never be released

2. The software would never have any new features released

3. If it did have new features, people would then complain that it took too long to release

4. The software would FINALLY be released “guaranteed secure”, and someone would find a security vulnerability.

It is essentially impossible to have 100% secure software.  Someone will always be able to find a new previously unknown method of attack.  If you don’t know about a specific attack how can you protect against it?

So the question is, how can you better protect your accounts if nothing is guaranteed?

USE A SECURE PASSWORD!!!!

Not only that, but use MULTIPLE SECURE PASSWORDS!

Below I’ll go through some common questions that people ask when trying to achieve account security.

First off, why is it a bad idea to create a really secure password and use the same password for all of your accounts?

• If you do this, then attacker just needs to figure out that one password and BAM, they have access to everything!

What determines if a password is secure enough?

• In reality, you can never have a password that is “secure enough”, but there are things you can do to make it more secure and less susceptible to brute force attacks.
• Brute force attacks:  This is an attack where an attacker uses computers to guess thousands of combinations in an attempt to get the correct password.  If your password is short, only has characters, no capitals, and uses understandable words like “monkey”, then there is a good chance an attacker can brute force your password.
• To make your password secure, it should be at LEAST 8 characters long, which many sites require anyways, but its good not to stop there, MAKE IT LONGER.
• Use a mix of upper and lower case letters
• Use numbers
• Use Symbols like !$#()*@
• The more variety of symbols, numbers, and characters the better

DO NOT use easy to answer security questions!

• Yeah, you know what I’m talking about, if you can, choose the complicated questions
• If it asks you what your favorite color is, don’t use this question!
• If you are forced to use this question, then the designers of the site using it are complete morons.  However, if it is unavoidable, input something like *(U#$NCDIJ@Nkioiem923`9u3 for your favorite color.  Yes it will suck if for some reason you forget your password but, you shouldn’t forget it after we look at how to make a better password.

How do I make multiple passwords for different sites?

We’re going to use a formula to calculate our password for every site.  Once you memorize the formula you’ll be set to have a different password for every account and each one will be secure.

So lets set we are going to have a 10 character long password…

 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Makes up a string of characters/symbols and numbers with at least one of each, 1 capital and one lowercase.  Don’t use a word for this!

For this example I’ll use H!8vl

Stick this in the middle of the password

_ _ _ H!8vl_ _

This part will be in every password we make, just memorize it

To figure out the rest of it we’ll use a formula of some sort

For the first space we can use the last letter of the site name, so lets say we’re on facebook this letter will be k.  So now we have

k _ _ H!8vl _ _

What is the purpose of this website? ( to [S]ocialize )

use the s for the next space

k s _ H!8vl _ _

For the next space lets use a number… this number will be represented by whether or not the site we are on starts with a consonant or a vowel (0) for consonant, (1) or vowel. Facebook starts with an F so we will use a 0

ks0H!8vl

for the next space lets use the letter that comes after the last letter of the site name.  The last letter is a k so we’ll use an L and we’ll ALWAYS capitalize this one.

ks0H!8vlL_

For the last space we’ll use the type of domain on the site, .com, .net, .org..

Since this site is facbook.com we’ll use a c

ks0H!8vlLc 

and we are finished!  You can come up with your own method of figuring out your passwords, and I’m sure there are better ways of thinking up what the characters are, but by doing this you can provide yourself with better security amongst all of your accounts.

Just finished finding the all of the answers to

9x^5 + 10^4 +2x^3 + x^2 + x + 1 = 0 (mod 12960)

This has always annoyed me…

Apparently, if you are one of the few students who actually work hard, you have a disorder

ziyadmd:

Which of the following disorders does this medical student most likely have?

I say the answer is: C.