Throughout the time that this community has been open, many users claim that they've been "hacked". What they don't understand is the fact that most of these "hackings" are mistakes with their passwords.
First it was popular for account theives to make a fake account and then provide a victim with the password to the fake account. They would then ask for the victim's password, saying that they could be trusted since they gave away the password to the fake account. Please know that if you give away your password it is not hacking, you openly gave them access to your account and nothing can be done.
Then it became popular for account thieves to guess passwords. Many members will use passwords that are VERY easy to guess, like "naruto" or "sasuke". If you have a Naruto character's name for your password you should change it immediately.
Top 10 Most Commonly Used Passwords:
1.) password
2.) god
3.) love
4.) sex
5.) 123456
6.) abc123
7.) qwerty
8.) letmein
9.) monkey
10.) [name] - your name, your screen name, a favorite character's name, bf/gf name
If your password is in the top ten list, change your password immediately.
You should make your password something personal to you. Your favorite sports team, or your favorite food. Add in your favorite number or day of the week. Do not let your password be related to the website or to your username.
Also, you need to make sure of is that your password is long! Let me give you some statistics on how long it takes to guess passwords based on how many letters they are.
| Number of Letters in Password | How Long it will take to Guess the Password (Length Known) | How Long it will take to Guess the Password (Length Unknown) |
|---|
| 1 |
62 tries |
62 tries |
| 2 |
3,844 tries |
3,906 tries |
| 3 |
238,328 tries |
242,234 tries |
| 4 |
14,776,336 tries |
14,800,570 tries |
| 5 |
916,132,832 tries |
930,933,402 tries |
| 6 |
56,800,235,584 tries |
57,731,168,986 tries |
| 7 |
3,521,614,606,208 tries |
3,579,345,775,194 tries |
| 8 |
218,340,105,584,896 tries |
221,919,451,360,090 tries |
| 9 |
13,537,086,546,263,552 tries |
13,759,005,997,623,642 tries |
| 10 |
839,299,365,868,340,224 tries |
853,058,371,865,963,866 tries |
As you can see, the number of tries it takes to guess the password gets insanely huge with just 1 more letter. While it may take a human person a long time to guess a 3 letter password, it would take a computer program only minutes. However if you make a password 7 characters long, it would take a computer almost a year. If you have at least 8 letters, then your password will most likely never be guessed because it would take WAY too long for anyone to really try.
Also notice that if someone doesn't know how long your password is, it will take them EVEN MORE times to guess how long the password is. This is because they have to try doing 3 letters first, then they have to try 4 letters, then they have to try 5 letters.
Another great way to keep your password from being guessed is to replace letters with numbers and sybmols. For example:
sasuke could be:
5a5uk3
Note: Do not use a naruto character's name for your password, even if you use the number/symbol trick.
Notice that the numbers/symbols look like the letters for the password.
| Letter (Alphabetically) | Number | Symbol |
|---|
| a |
|
@ |
| A |
4 |
^ |
| e |
|
& |
| E |
3 |
|
| g |
9 |
|
| G |
6 |
|
| H |
|
# |
| i |
1 |
! |
| k |
|
< |
| l |
1 |
/, \, |, [, ], (, ) |
| o |
0 |
|
| oo |
8 |
% |
| s |
5 |
$ |
| t |
7 |
+ |
| v |
|
^, <, > |
If you have more letter/number/symbol combinations, comment below.
Finally, most people use either all capital or all lower case letters. You should mix them up! For example, make your first and last letters capital letters.
naruto would be:
Narut0
Or if you have two symbols separated by a letter, then make the letter into a capital letter so that when you're typing your symbols you don't have to let go of the "shift" key. For example:
shikamaru would be:
5h!K@M@ru
The capital K and M make it easier to type because of the symbols surrounding them (you can hold shift for all of them).
This website doesn't currently allow the use of symbols, so you'll be limited to just numbers and letters. However you're now on the right track to making good passwords that people can't guess.
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