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Old 01-17-2012, 08:33 AM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by seeandsee View Post
i guess people then should use strong user,pass combo as MUST

small,big letters and numbers and min 10 chars for user,pass
and you are safe
Most importantly, long passwords. Think "pass phrase". One extra character adds a lot more entropy than including a few odd punctuation marks in the set.

Only if the site is NOT using the default 1970s encryption that the processors use by default, though. The default scripts from the processors ignore everything but the first eight characters.
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