Can you help please!

[Kiwi]

Hi everyone,

Hope you are well.

I am in the last few stages of my final year uni project which is a research paper about the vulnerability of passwords and why people get hacked. I was hoping if you can help out my research by filling out a questionnaire. It is totally anonymous and all of the data is secure and will be destroyed once my dissertation is complete.

The link is :

http://kwiksurveys.com/?u=KUFYP

Once you have completed, or even if you are unable to fill it out, can you please forward on this link or tweet the link or set it as your facebook status or post it on another website forum or anything so it can get to as many people as possible. Its really important for my research and all of your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you in advanced

Kind Regards

Kiwi

[Greggles]

there u go just to let u know the end bit may make people feel uneasy i know its a example but some people may thing its so you can guess theres lol

[FunkyCowie]

Done...

I have made the mistake in the past of using a weak e-mail password now all my important data is kept behind 10-30 character randomly generated passwords that I keep in a file that is protected by a 60 character randomly generated password that I have memorized.

I am serious and paranoid.   

[Kiwi]

lol thanx a bundle guys!!!!!

wow funky that is seriously paranoid, you should read my project, you will realise you dont need such an epically long password.

@greggles yea i felt that too but at the time i couldnt think of any other way to word it. the question is there so i can get an idea of what the public think is a secure password

[FunkyCowie]

I can type the password in under 45 seconds so its not a big deal to me

The other passwords I can now remember off by heart too so I don't actually need the 60 one...

I have actually used a 15 one on a site and been told its not strong enough...  

[Kiwi]

its not so much how long it is that is that makes it secure, its how complex you make it. that's what ive found while doing some research on it. like you can have a 50 character password with lowercase letters and numbers only and it wont be as secure as a 14 character password that has UC, LC, numbers AND special characters.

[JCDenton]

Iv done it, i feel bad about not changing my passwords in ages so i have now lol.

[FunkyCowie]

Oh well looks like even a 20 character totally random password with UC, LC, numbers and special characters thats changed every 3 months can fail, some *%^$*^£* just ran £1000 through my paypal account from my bank account.

Paypal informed and waiting for them to give me my money back.

[JCDenton]

Oh well looks like even a 20 character totally random password with UC, LC, numbers and special characters thats changed every 3 months can fail, some *%^$*^£* just ran £1000 through my paypal account from my bank account.

Paypal informed and waiting for them to give me my money back.

Check your pc for spyware and key loggers, never log accounts on public pc's.

[Jason]

Yep they will always get to your password in the easiest way

And keyloggers are so simple

I run
AVG, Zonealarm, Adaware and Spybot and that seems to help

Jason 

[Bounce]

LOL funky you must be on cowies to be that mad, how long does it take you to remember a password of that length?

[FunkyCowie]

Jas i use spybot and ms security essentials... ran a check and nothing came up

Bounce about an hour

Paypal are refunding, apparently the same 'send to' account was used for several paypal user accounts.

[FunkyCowie]

moeny is back in my account, so for a usual 2 week turn around to basically 24 hours I am impressed. Still would like to know how this person got my access information...

[Greggles]

Yep they will always get to your password in the easiest way

And keyloggers are so simple

I run
AVG, Zonealarm, Adaware and Spybot and that seems to help

Jason 

or you could just get a mac and not have to worry about it 

[Hilly-of-the-Marshes]

Yep they will always get to your password in the easiest way

And keyloggers are so simple

I run
AVG, Zonealarm, Adaware and Spybot and that seems to help

Jason 

or you could just get a mac and not have to worry about it 

*crosses fingers and whispers* please be trolling... please be trolling... please be trolling

[Jason]

Look over your shoulder Greg 

As Macs are getting more popular the viruses are starting and all the keyloggers

My mates IT dept had 3 Mac incidents last month and a couple the month before

Thats up from none last year  think the Crims have finally figgured out that if you are willing to pay twice as much for the same hardware with Apple software on it you might have something worth removing from your bank account 

Got to admit I've not had anything serious on my normal computer (touch wood) but I use a second isolated one if I am surfing free game sites etc

Jason