Years ago someone taught me how to amass huge numbers of passwords with relative ease. I started using it in a very simple form because I don't have to do anything out of the way.
Here's how it works. You have a keyboard that has columns of one, two, three, or four main character keys and the way they alternate in their stacking in rows, they make diagonal columns.
And each key is of course identified by a character.
Turns out that even today - years later a few people are just now lengthening this - no matter how many characters you give your password,
the software stops checking at 16 characters, or something like that.
But passwords are rated as ''very strong'' or the highest level, whatever it is, when they get 8 characters, and those 8 characters comprise components from 4 character sets.
[edit: Use this pattern as a preliminary and demonstration method primarily, and think about it awhile, and invent your own pattern. Also you can consider creating pass phrases like you see people recommending here, as well as at I.T. sites, but indexing them on the letters in the site name, similarly to the way I'm describing here. I've been looking up modern password cracking articles and software's getting pretty good at trying common patterns, too nowadays. You can imagine how simple it was for crackers to pick that up, so if you use lottery defined patterns, be sure to go to a password checker application, and ensure the pattern you're considering, rates high in security, within a manageable number of characters.]
The method I'm gonna discuss, exploits the shit out of this 4 x 2 concept by hitting each key in it twice: once normal, once with _SHIFT_ to make it a capital and, invoke the special character over the numerals.
You have the SHIFT button
You also have CAPSLOCK. Don't forget that.
Now glance toward the keys. See how you have columns of keys and how each and every key, just so happens to be a part of not one, but two columns?
Some columns are going up/down diagonally left, some columns are going up/down diagonally right. Right? Right.
So - as a pattern analyst you have two columns of four keys going diagonally,
you have two basic modes of using them: SHIFT and lowercase.
The third, additional mode: CAPSLOCK.
CAPSLOCK makes everything in capitals until you hit SHIFT; but there's one thing here: it doesn't invoke the special character over the numerals. You have to hit SHIFT. Now: this is the case also with the two arrow keys and the question mark, and the bracket keys too; so CAPSLOCK isn't really *just the same thing, as holding shift.
The patterns you choose, are gonna use the lowercase/SHIFT/caps function
on each key
so that you create an 8 digit password that includes both numerals and special characters; both lowercase and uppercase letters.
Special characters and numerals are important due to the way password breaking programs work.
They ask the person, how many 'character sets' they want to bang out against the password's individual character slots.
Adding numerals makes a larger set.
Adding Capitals makes a much larger set
because there are 26 capital letters.
Adding special characters - the ones that are invoked over numerals when you SHIFT - this makes a larger set
but it's also the one, typically, less likely to be used - because people figure correctly, most people, almost ALL people, use some kind of lower/caps/numerals thing. BillyBob1979. ElvisRocks
So you need to use the four character sets,
to have a password checker, give you a 'very strong' rating.
When you look at the keys, think about how it wouldn't take you very long at all - to figure out, different patterns.
The video I saw many years ago suggests a very genius way because the login page of a place, it's name isn't likely to change so it suggests you take the letters,
between www.
and
the .com/.net/.org ending of the ''name'' section.
For instance let's assume we're on the login page here at IC right now. The name of the place, is www[dot]icmag[dot]com. Whatever comes later, is which page on this site -but that portion right there, IS the REGISTERED NAME of the SITE;
and it isn't going to change.
Make up a quick easy plan, in which you devise some way to use the letters in the name section of any website, as the index
for your password.
For instance icmag has i as that first letter
so I'll pretend that being a simple minded chimp, err, chump, I use the first letter of a site, to index the password.
I Look up and right there's the name of the place: LaLaLaLa,dot icmag, dot com. The letter ''i'' it is, so I look down at i on my keyboard and hit i, SHIFT-i.
The pattern I decided to demonstrate is that since I'm left handed, I will use the line of keys, going up to the left.
That's personal to me and I can never forget it.
I also decided, that whatever the index key on a row is - here, it's the letter i...
I will make the second character, the key in that row, as FAR FROM the initial key, as I can get.
Look down.
On my keyboard, that key, is for SURE: the comma, left-arrow key: like this ,<
Can you see that's true?
Ok and my rule is simple:
my NEXT key to be invoked in that row, will be the NEXT furthest, previously unused key.
Look at the keyboard that's eight/asterisk. Like this 8*
Rule hasn't changed but there's only one key left, that's k (shift)K.
So with three simple parameters, I have made a template for passwords that are basically, almost endless: and it's the strongest password you can make with 8 characters, more or less.
Now.
The real genius to this has yet to fully unfold.
The real games begin when you decide to divide your websites, into different divisions.
For sake of best intuitive division I'll pick ''things I don't mind being RIGHT up front'' in other words politically there can't be some kind of negative stuff for people seeing it;
then I divide a second group as 'things better LEFT unsaid' and that's like.. my trisexual bondage goat bestiality pyromaniac snuff porn. My membership here. You get the picture.
Then for my third division I choose ''Work/Finance related passwords.''
Watch how fast you can come up with three different sets of completely different passwords. - Listen... - endlessly.
For those I don't mind being right out front, my key hypothetically, to show you, is to use the first letter of the name in the address bar; It's the ''first'' group of passwords I think I'll ever generate, I use the ''first'' letter of the address name of the site.
I use the diagonal line of 4 keys going up to the RIGHT for stuff I don't mind being 'RIGHT' up front'
and I use the previous key pressing pattern: index key in the row first, key farthest away, key farthest away again, then the remaining key.
Ok that's one, nearly endlessly variable array of passwords I can create.
For the 2nd group, stuff 'better LEFT un-talked about' when in public because there could be political consequences
I choose to use the 2nd letter in the address bar, (2nd group/2nd letter in the name of the web site)
and the column of keys going up, to the LEFT.
Same pattern of index key, farthest, next farthest, last key.
For the 3rd, WORK related stuff I'll simply use the third letter of the site name, (third group, third letter) the ''right up front'' diagonal line of keys, where I choose the line of keys going up to the right,
but I invoke CAPSLOCK and do the sequence, because of course we all know ''RIGHT up front'' that ''WORK IS REALLY IMPORTANT.''
I mean - I know it's kind of simple minded; but imagine how powerful this is over your lifetime.
Any where,
you have ever been,
There can only be,
mathematically, one of like 3 different passwords possible;
none of them you have to remember,
and they self select out of an almost, a practically ENDLESS number of passwords.
And let's face it.
You know where the f*** you've worked or if something deals with your finance.
So that eliminates the possible work/bank password.
And you know that the dating site, or that stuff you figure... is better ''LEFT un talked-about in front of people in general,'' from
your password to National Geographic or CNN news commentary. The 'instructables' is stuff 'RIGHT' up front.
So really, no matter what that place is for the REST of YOUR LIFE,
the password, can only be, one password. At the MOST - two.
In spite of the fact that they self select themselves out of an INCREDIBLE number of passwords possible, with 8 places.
I chose a hypothetical algorithm in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd letter theme - you can make yours, the LAST, the NEXT to last, and THIRD from last -
then there's the pattern variations you can do as far as what order you hit the keys in.
Here's how you can vary even that, with VERY good results. You know the day, is always coming, when you are gonna have to give your boss or somebody your work password on the phone. Right? Of course you are.
So for your work passwords, along with the invocation of the CAPSLOCK, simply remove the complex pattern; and on the row of keys with the proper letter to index it - let's see... icmag - let's pretend we're gonna be working for icmag, and the boss gave us a mailbox at their domain; so we're gonna have a work place password for there, the insurance company password from there, all this kinda stuff.
The third letter of icmag's website name, is m,
so i just tell the boss, if he ever calls me on the phone, ''lock the CAPSLOCK.
Going from the bottom to the top, type MKO0
press shift
Going from the bottom to the top, type mko)
Your boss will be amazed. He'll be like.. ''that's your password?'' And you'll coyly smile, nod, and seductively look deep into his shitty greens,
and think very loudly, in quiet but deafeningly loud, lime green letters- rays: coming out of your head; into his: ''Promote me, love me, throw money and prestige at me,''
and he's gonna be like.. ''Damn. My IT manager's was ''Dave1979.''
The thing about these passwords, see, is that - you never have to keep a list, all your life.
Never.
Not one.
Every password, you ever have,
is going to be self selecting,
and simultaneously it's gonna pass the ''strongest'' level for passwords, on a password security tester with 8, or 10 minimum, significant places.
The second thing about this is that you are completely protected about your other ones,
if someone discovers any one; or any two; or three, or four:
because even though they know what they are, they SEEM to
have,
a.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y.
no relationship to each other,
NOR to YOU.
Because they DON'T. They DON'T have any trackable significance in any way, and how is someone going to discover how you created any of them?
You sat there at your laptop having a beer, and thought about how you were gonna do it, without consulting a soul on earth.
In fact you tuned the parameters by something that was part determined by basically - a lottery
comprising which letter in sequence, you decided to use from the page's address line,
and a lottery regarding what pattern you decided to use, on each password group.
Maybe the 1st letter, 2nd letter, 3rd letter, isn't something you wanna copy.
You give it a think; and come to the conclusion that you'll arrange it thus:
The 1st letter of any site's name will be the WORK one because
WORK FIRST,
everything else, second and third. (Go to the right diagonally cause work's gotta be done RIGHT. You get the idea here.)
Ok then your personal public & family life, you don't mind being 2nd, right alongside work,
all those sites like your race car forums,
your kid's web sites,
your bass fishing site,
NBC news, The Weather Channel, all that stuff - it gets the 2nd letter of the website's name, and you use the RIGHT direction row of keys because it's alRIGHT for people to see these places, should they look over your shoulder.
and you use the same pattern of: index letter key, furthest away in the 4-key diagonal line, then next furthest, then the last one.
and your private billy goat on fire while making love to a midget snuff porn sites,
the pot site,
your Fox news account, shit you're ashamed of because you like the devil weed in your nose when you're watching billy goat snuff porn thinking about making out with Rupert Murdoch-
for THOSE sites you decide to use the
LAST letter of the website's name;
because the LAST thing you want to HAPPEN is get caught watching Fox News. And because it's better LEFT un talked about in public
you of course use the diagonal-left direction, row of keys associated, with the last letter of the website's name in the address bar.
Seriously; if somebody said 'We discovered two of his passwords, what does this do for us as far as opening all his other stuff?
What would one or two or even three passwords, give away?
In other words, in normal real-time bond vs bond spook work, you're gonna be getting some idea you need to check your stuff; and if it's just some kid trying out his Ubunto distro and installation of John or whatever - nobody's gonna crack that just sitting around using a couple of dictionaries, and some character sets, in a short time. A lot of these places disconnect you for an hour after three fails.
And it puts a substantial stop to one leaked password setting off a catastrophic string of failed passwords because somebody can only remember say, 4, or 6 passwords in their life. Four of THOSE, hardly EVER any more, 'now I use this one and that one.' We all know the story.
These things give you * a different, brand new password, for nearly every single website you'll ever visit and register at.
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So I guess that's it for this post, I haven't really been getting out these past few years so my blogging and general literacy skills have gone through the floor; sorry for messed up grammar that seems like it came from an angry old pot warrior shaking his fist at planes flying overhead, while watering his squash with a hose. I was out watering my squash, shaking my fist at a helicopter that went by, and I had to come in and sit down before I got excited.
If I drift off and can't think of anything else to say, don't be surprised, nor offended. I sometimes drift off, and talk to myself; about when the wires were all made of wood, and men on wagons went by with tall ladders, spritzing them with mineral water so the electricity and data would flow.
It was a long time ago when I walked uphill both ways to and from school, where we all huddled around a little tiny 12 inch, monochrome monitor, and watched President Reagan give them Putinites hell. [It's a joke... Putin wasn't around then it was Gorbechav... you had to have been there in my head.]
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recap because I'm SativaSpammin'. (I'm sensing I'm leaving out a lot of the easy yet creative password patterns you can create with this method. I've used this method for years but I don't talk about it a lot so I'm having memories dredge up about 'oh, and look how simply you can do them, doing like this..'' syndrome)
One of the least likely things to change is the registered name of the website.
That's between the w w w-dot, and the dot-com.
There's several ways to do it but a common one is ''things that are alRIGHT for everybody to see,
things better LEFT un talked about
and there's WORK/FINANCE.
You can index the letters in such way that you use the first, second and last letter of the name in the address bar to index your three classes of passwords.
By making sure you use the pattern of indexing letter.. then jumping as far as you can on the row, doing that again, then the last key of the four in the diagonal row, you can create a very wide distribution of the numerical and special characters among the group of 8 characters comprising the password.
Typically sites only actually check, the first 8 characters of a password, and password checkers won't give you a ''strongest'' rating for a password without using, at least 8 characters, and also using, all four, character sets: lowercase, uppercase, numerical, and special characters.
Any patterns you devise should have 8 characters, and should include all four character sets.
The patterns you select can be nearly endlessly variable themselves. You can punch in the row diagonally, then hold down shift and re punch them in some different pattern. First, without SHIFT or CAPSLOCK in say, a jumping pattern, then holding shift down, simply going from top to bottom, or bottom to top.
The usage of very low complexity patterns and methods, made up by one after admittedly thinking about it awhile - can give you a hassle free life time of passwords so complex, everyone you meet, will be shocked at how unpredictable they are, and yet, whenever you ever visit any site for the rest of your life, there can really be only one or two possible passwords out of literally millions.
It's a very powerful way to make your passwords, and I've used it for many years. I saw a video about it on youtube but I can't remember what the video was, who it was, or anything like that,
and I figured this is a good place to kind of put that up for people to check out and nod wisely, and say, verrrrry interestinG...
Ok I'm out. Peace on ya, hippies and don't take any wooden nickels from these professional government employees. They all want your shit, and they have a plan. Take it.
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One final note. There is also the method of dividing your passwords so you have work, and finance, like the bank, in different classes.
You have public/family stuff index on letter one of the website name in the address bar.
You have private stuff index on say, the last letter.
Have work, index on the second letter of the name
Have banking/credit related sites' passwords index on the next to last letter,
and - you can run passwords up to 8 characters, with just as strong response on a difficulty checker,
if you simply make your first pass along the row of four keys the index letter is on, without pressing shift at all,
then make another pass, holding shift down.
And you can make the direction of one pass be down,
and the direction of the next pass on that row be up.
You can actually vary it and make it even ... I was gonna say, 'kinkier.' I don't know what that means about my personality, but I think it means that if you are gonna sleep with me, you better have me take a venereal disease panel.
Anyway what I'm saying about this method is that - I really do think the way I'm describing it isn't opening up people readings' minds, about the high, HIGH level of variability available in the patterns you invoke, pressing the keys.
Skipping as many keys as possible in one pass with SHIFT not held down; then, typing the row straight from bottom or top, with shift held down - on and on, the variants on this go.
So it's not even like someone could write a whole lot of an algorithm against it, if they tried.
And furthermore the kinda neat thing about it is - there are SO MANY much easier passwords to crack, yours is always gonna be the last one bothered with.
You really have to stare at the keyboard awhile to realize, how obscure, you can get, with a password involving usage of a total of 8 keys, and you have to use
lowercase,
uppercase,
numerals, &
special characters.
You can pick the row your letter is on, and type the top and bottom keys, then hold shift and type the two middle keys, then lowercase the middle and shift/capitalize, the two top and bottom ones.
Hey - you don't even need to remain IN a ROW. You just have to have a simple rule for making some pattern on the keyboard you don't think will be easily discernable to people nearby.
You can divide the keys up into 4 crosswise rows; and somehow or other, contrive it so you just get that lowercase/uppercase, numerals/special symbols in, using 8 characters; since they also have to be LONG ENOUGH to pass muster too: it needs to be long enough that it'll take forever to hash it all, even if somebody thinks to use all four character sets - uppercase/lowercase/numerals/special symbols.
One of the drawbacks to this method is that it's difficult to do it on a phone; so you might need to think about doing four, then holding shift, and doing four more.
Ok I could Sativa spam all night. I realize this method isn't even the most secure; the most secure method is to use as many character sets as possible, invoking things like chinese and cyrillic and polish character sets, so there's just no way somebody could dream of you having all those variables in one place, so they wouldn't think to try to get a chinese and polish etc, character set.
But how is anybody going to do that in today's highly streamlined world? Nobody can. It's too unwieldy. What do you do when you're on any computer but your super special secret agent manifold character set loader?
It's not feasible.
But the making a pattern using the four character sets on your keyboard is, and the range of things you could set up is unbelievable if also improbable.
You don't need complexity. The simpler, for the most part, the better. Especially once people are doing it on their phones and have to keep the thing held in SHIFT mode while they do a section of their string of characters.
So finally LoL I'll shut up, I had some of my wife's delicious food, I had some GREAT smoke a guy seeded me, for free. We let him crash on the couch awhile and he said 'hey I kept these seeds, the bag of weed was like... strong. Thanks.'' He gave me like 50 seeds and those things make some terrific weed.
Overgrow the Government.
Overgrow the World.
Here's how it works. You have a keyboard that has columns of one, two, three, or four main character keys and the way they alternate in their stacking in rows, they make diagonal columns.
And each key is of course identified by a character.
Turns out that even today - years later a few people are just now lengthening this - no matter how many characters you give your password,
the software stops checking at 16 characters, or something like that.
But passwords are rated as ''very strong'' or the highest level, whatever it is, when they get 8 characters, and those 8 characters comprise components from 4 character sets.
[edit: Use this pattern as a preliminary and demonstration method primarily, and think about it awhile, and invent your own pattern. Also you can consider creating pass phrases like you see people recommending here, as well as at I.T. sites, but indexing them on the letters in the site name, similarly to the way I'm describing here. I've been looking up modern password cracking articles and software's getting pretty good at trying common patterns, too nowadays. You can imagine how simple it was for crackers to pick that up, so if you use lottery defined patterns, be sure to go to a password checker application, and ensure the pattern you're considering, rates high in security, within a manageable number of characters.]
The method I'm gonna discuss, exploits the shit out of this 4 x 2 concept by hitting each key in it twice: once normal, once with _SHIFT_ to make it a capital and, invoke the special character over the numerals.
You have the SHIFT button
You also have CAPSLOCK. Don't forget that.
Now glance toward the keys. See how you have columns of keys and how each and every key, just so happens to be a part of not one, but two columns?
Some columns are going up/down diagonally left, some columns are going up/down diagonally right. Right? Right.
So - as a pattern analyst you have two columns of four keys going diagonally,
you have two basic modes of using them: SHIFT and lowercase.
The third, additional mode: CAPSLOCK.
CAPSLOCK makes everything in capitals until you hit SHIFT; but there's one thing here: it doesn't invoke the special character over the numerals. You have to hit SHIFT. Now: this is the case also with the two arrow keys and the question mark, and the bracket keys too; so CAPSLOCK isn't really *just the same thing, as holding shift.
The patterns you choose, are gonna use the lowercase/SHIFT/caps function
on each key
so that you create an 8 digit password that includes both numerals and special characters; both lowercase and uppercase letters.
Special characters and numerals are important due to the way password breaking programs work.
They ask the person, how many 'character sets' they want to bang out against the password's individual character slots.
Adding numerals makes a larger set.
Adding Capitals makes a much larger set
because there are 26 capital letters.
Adding special characters - the ones that are invoked over numerals when you SHIFT - this makes a larger set
but it's also the one, typically, less likely to be used - because people figure correctly, most people, almost ALL people, use some kind of lower/caps/numerals thing. BillyBob1979. ElvisRocks
So you need to use the four character sets,
to have a password checker, give you a 'very strong' rating.
When you look at the keys, think about how it wouldn't take you very long at all - to figure out, different patterns.
The video I saw many years ago suggests a very genius way because the login page of a place, it's name isn't likely to change so it suggests you take the letters,
between www.
and
the .com/.net/.org ending of the ''name'' section.
For instance let's assume we're on the login page here at IC right now. The name of the place, is www[dot]icmag[dot]com. Whatever comes later, is which page on this site -but that portion right there, IS the REGISTERED NAME of the SITE;
and it isn't going to change.
Make up a quick easy plan, in which you devise some way to use the letters in the name section of any website, as the index
for your password.
For instance icmag has i as that first letter
so I'll pretend that being a simple minded chimp, err, chump, I use the first letter of a site, to index the password.
I Look up and right there's the name of the place: LaLaLaLa,dot icmag, dot com. The letter ''i'' it is, so I look down at i on my keyboard and hit i, SHIFT-i.
The pattern I decided to demonstrate is that since I'm left handed, I will use the line of keys, going up to the left.
That's personal to me and I can never forget it.
I also decided, that whatever the index key on a row is - here, it's the letter i...
I will make the second character, the key in that row, as FAR FROM the initial key, as I can get.
Look down.
On my keyboard, that key, is for SURE: the comma, left-arrow key: like this ,<
Can you see that's true?
Ok and my rule is simple:
my NEXT key to be invoked in that row, will be the NEXT furthest, previously unused key.
Look at the keyboard that's eight/asterisk. Like this 8*
Rule hasn't changed but there's only one key left, that's k (shift)K.
So with three simple parameters, I have made a template for passwords that are basically, almost endless: and it's the strongest password you can make with 8 characters, more or less.
Now.
The real genius to this has yet to fully unfold.
The real games begin when you decide to divide your websites, into different divisions.
For sake of best intuitive division I'll pick ''things I don't mind being RIGHT up front'' in other words politically there can't be some kind of negative stuff for people seeing it;
then I divide a second group as 'things better LEFT unsaid' and that's like.. my trisexual bondage goat bestiality pyromaniac snuff porn. My membership here. You get the picture.
Then for my third division I choose ''Work/Finance related passwords.''
Watch how fast you can come up with three different sets of completely different passwords. - Listen... - endlessly.
For those I don't mind being right out front, my key hypothetically, to show you, is to use the first letter of the name in the address bar; It's the ''first'' group of passwords I think I'll ever generate, I use the ''first'' letter of the address name of the site.
I use the diagonal line of 4 keys going up to the RIGHT for stuff I don't mind being 'RIGHT' up front'
and I use the previous key pressing pattern: index key in the row first, key farthest away, key farthest away again, then the remaining key.
Ok that's one, nearly endlessly variable array of passwords I can create.
For the 2nd group, stuff 'better LEFT un-talked about' when in public because there could be political consequences
I choose to use the 2nd letter in the address bar, (2nd group/2nd letter in the name of the web site)
and the column of keys going up, to the LEFT.
Same pattern of index key, farthest, next farthest, last key.
For the 3rd, WORK related stuff I'll simply use the third letter of the site name, (third group, third letter) the ''right up front'' diagonal line of keys, where I choose the line of keys going up to the right,
but I invoke CAPSLOCK and do the sequence, because of course we all know ''RIGHT up front'' that ''WORK IS REALLY IMPORTANT.''
I mean - I know it's kind of simple minded; but imagine how powerful this is over your lifetime.
Any where,
you have ever been,
There can only be,
mathematically, one of like 3 different passwords possible;
none of them you have to remember,
and they self select out of an almost, a practically ENDLESS number of passwords.
And let's face it.
You know where the f*** you've worked or if something deals with your finance.
So that eliminates the possible work/bank password.
And you know that the dating site, or that stuff you figure... is better ''LEFT un talked-about in front of people in general,'' from
your password to National Geographic or CNN news commentary. The 'instructables' is stuff 'RIGHT' up front.
So really, no matter what that place is for the REST of YOUR LIFE,
the password, can only be, one password. At the MOST - two.
In spite of the fact that they self select themselves out of an INCREDIBLE number of passwords possible, with 8 places.
I chose a hypothetical algorithm in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd letter theme - you can make yours, the LAST, the NEXT to last, and THIRD from last -
then there's the pattern variations you can do as far as what order you hit the keys in.
Here's how you can vary even that, with VERY good results. You know the day, is always coming, when you are gonna have to give your boss or somebody your work password on the phone. Right? Of course you are.
So for your work passwords, along with the invocation of the CAPSLOCK, simply remove the complex pattern; and on the row of keys with the proper letter to index it - let's see... icmag - let's pretend we're gonna be working for icmag, and the boss gave us a mailbox at their domain; so we're gonna have a work place password for there, the insurance company password from there, all this kinda stuff.
The third letter of icmag's website name, is m,
so i just tell the boss, if he ever calls me on the phone, ''lock the CAPSLOCK.
Going from the bottom to the top, type MKO0
press shift
Going from the bottom to the top, type mko)
Your boss will be amazed. He'll be like.. ''that's your password?'' And you'll coyly smile, nod, and seductively look deep into his shitty greens,
and think very loudly, in quiet but deafeningly loud, lime green letters- rays: coming out of your head; into his: ''Promote me, love me, throw money and prestige at me,''
and he's gonna be like.. ''Damn. My IT manager's was ''Dave1979.''
The thing about these passwords, see, is that - you never have to keep a list, all your life.
Never.
Not one.
Every password, you ever have,
is going to be self selecting,
and simultaneously it's gonna pass the ''strongest'' level for passwords, on a password security tester with 8, or 10 minimum, significant places.
The second thing about this is that you are completely protected about your other ones,
if someone discovers any one; or any two; or three, or four:
because even though they know what they are, they SEEM to
have,
a.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y.
no relationship to each other,
NOR to YOU.
Because they DON'T. They DON'T have any trackable significance in any way, and how is someone going to discover how you created any of them?
You sat there at your laptop having a beer, and thought about how you were gonna do it, without consulting a soul on earth.
In fact you tuned the parameters by something that was part determined by basically - a lottery
comprising which letter in sequence, you decided to use from the page's address line,
and a lottery regarding what pattern you decided to use, on each password group.
Maybe the 1st letter, 2nd letter, 3rd letter, isn't something you wanna copy.
You give it a think; and come to the conclusion that you'll arrange it thus:
The 1st letter of any site's name will be the WORK one because
WORK FIRST,
everything else, second and third. (Go to the right diagonally cause work's gotta be done RIGHT. You get the idea here.)
Ok then your personal public & family life, you don't mind being 2nd, right alongside work,
all those sites like your race car forums,
your kid's web sites,
your bass fishing site,
NBC news, The Weather Channel, all that stuff - it gets the 2nd letter of the website's name, and you use the RIGHT direction row of keys because it's alRIGHT for people to see these places, should they look over your shoulder.
and you use the same pattern of: index letter key, furthest away in the 4-key diagonal line, then next furthest, then the last one.
and your private billy goat on fire while making love to a midget snuff porn sites,
the pot site,
your Fox news account, shit you're ashamed of because you like the devil weed in your nose when you're watching billy goat snuff porn thinking about making out with Rupert Murdoch-
for THOSE sites you decide to use the
LAST letter of the website's name;
because the LAST thing you want to HAPPEN is get caught watching Fox News. And because it's better LEFT un talked about in public
you of course use the diagonal-left direction, row of keys associated, with the last letter of the website's name in the address bar.
Seriously; if somebody said 'We discovered two of his passwords, what does this do for us as far as opening all his other stuff?
What would one or two or even three passwords, give away?
In other words, in normal real-time bond vs bond spook work, you're gonna be getting some idea you need to check your stuff; and if it's just some kid trying out his Ubunto distro and installation of John or whatever - nobody's gonna crack that just sitting around using a couple of dictionaries, and some character sets, in a short time. A lot of these places disconnect you for an hour after three fails.
And it puts a substantial stop to one leaked password setting off a catastrophic string of failed passwords because somebody can only remember say, 4, or 6 passwords in their life. Four of THOSE, hardly EVER any more, 'now I use this one and that one.' We all know the story.
These things give you * a different, brand new password, for nearly every single website you'll ever visit and register at.
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So I guess that's it for this post, I haven't really been getting out these past few years so my blogging and general literacy skills have gone through the floor; sorry for messed up grammar that seems like it came from an angry old pot warrior shaking his fist at planes flying overhead, while watering his squash with a hose. I was out watering my squash, shaking my fist at a helicopter that went by, and I had to come in and sit down before I got excited.
If I drift off and can't think of anything else to say, don't be surprised, nor offended. I sometimes drift off, and talk to myself; about when the wires were all made of wood, and men on wagons went by with tall ladders, spritzing them with mineral water so the electricity and data would flow.
It was a long time ago when I walked uphill both ways to and from school, where we all huddled around a little tiny 12 inch, monochrome monitor, and watched President Reagan give them Putinites hell. [It's a joke... Putin wasn't around then it was Gorbechav... you had to have been there in my head.]
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recap because I'm SativaSpammin'. (I'm sensing I'm leaving out a lot of the easy yet creative password patterns you can create with this method. I've used this method for years but I don't talk about it a lot so I'm having memories dredge up about 'oh, and look how simply you can do them, doing like this..'' syndrome)
One of the least likely things to change is the registered name of the website.
That's between the w w w-dot, and the dot-com.
There's several ways to do it but a common one is ''things that are alRIGHT for everybody to see,
things better LEFT un talked about
and there's WORK/FINANCE.
You can index the letters in such way that you use the first, second and last letter of the name in the address bar to index your three classes of passwords.
By making sure you use the pattern of indexing letter.. then jumping as far as you can on the row, doing that again, then the last key of the four in the diagonal row, you can create a very wide distribution of the numerical and special characters among the group of 8 characters comprising the password.
Typically sites only actually check, the first 8 characters of a password, and password checkers won't give you a ''strongest'' rating for a password without using, at least 8 characters, and also using, all four, character sets: lowercase, uppercase, numerical, and special characters.
Any patterns you devise should have 8 characters, and should include all four character sets.
The patterns you select can be nearly endlessly variable themselves. You can punch in the row diagonally, then hold down shift and re punch them in some different pattern. First, without SHIFT or CAPSLOCK in say, a jumping pattern, then holding shift down, simply going from top to bottom, or bottom to top.
The usage of very low complexity patterns and methods, made up by one after admittedly thinking about it awhile - can give you a hassle free life time of passwords so complex, everyone you meet, will be shocked at how unpredictable they are, and yet, whenever you ever visit any site for the rest of your life, there can really be only one or two possible passwords out of literally millions.
It's a very powerful way to make your passwords, and I've used it for many years. I saw a video about it on youtube but I can't remember what the video was, who it was, or anything like that,
and I figured this is a good place to kind of put that up for people to check out and nod wisely, and say, verrrrry interestinG...
Ok I'm out. Peace on ya, hippies and don't take any wooden nickels from these professional government employees. They all want your shit, and they have a plan. Take it.
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One final note. There is also the method of dividing your passwords so you have work, and finance, like the bank, in different classes.
You have public/family stuff index on letter one of the website name in the address bar.
You have private stuff index on say, the last letter.
Have work, index on the second letter of the name
Have banking/credit related sites' passwords index on the next to last letter,
and - you can run passwords up to 8 characters, with just as strong response on a difficulty checker,
if you simply make your first pass along the row of four keys the index letter is on, without pressing shift at all,
then make another pass, holding shift down.
And you can make the direction of one pass be down,
and the direction of the next pass on that row be up.
You can actually vary it and make it even ... I was gonna say, 'kinkier.' I don't know what that means about my personality, but I think it means that if you are gonna sleep with me, you better have me take a venereal disease panel.
Anyway what I'm saying about this method is that - I really do think the way I'm describing it isn't opening up people readings' minds, about the high, HIGH level of variability available in the patterns you invoke, pressing the keys.
Skipping as many keys as possible in one pass with SHIFT not held down; then, typing the row straight from bottom or top, with shift held down - on and on, the variants on this go.
So it's not even like someone could write a whole lot of an algorithm against it, if they tried.
And furthermore the kinda neat thing about it is - there are SO MANY much easier passwords to crack, yours is always gonna be the last one bothered with.
You really have to stare at the keyboard awhile to realize, how obscure, you can get, with a password involving usage of a total of 8 keys, and you have to use
lowercase,
uppercase,
numerals, &
special characters.
You can pick the row your letter is on, and type the top and bottom keys, then hold shift and type the two middle keys, then lowercase the middle and shift/capitalize, the two top and bottom ones.
Hey - you don't even need to remain IN a ROW. You just have to have a simple rule for making some pattern on the keyboard you don't think will be easily discernable to people nearby.
You can divide the keys up into 4 crosswise rows; and somehow or other, contrive it so you just get that lowercase/uppercase, numerals/special symbols in, using 8 characters; since they also have to be LONG ENOUGH to pass muster too: it needs to be long enough that it'll take forever to hash it all, even if somebody thinks to use all four character sets - uppercase/lowercase/numerals/special symbols.
One of the drawbacks to this method is that it's difficult to do it on a phone; so you might need to think about doing four, then holding shift, and doing four more.
Ok I could Sativa spam all night. I realize this method isn't even the most secure; the most secure method is to use as many character sets as possible, invoking things like chinese and cyrillic and polish character sets, so there's just no way somebody could dream of you having all those variables in one place, so they wouldn't think to try to get a chinese and polish etc, character set.
But how is anybody going to do that in today's highly streamlined world? Nobody can. It's too unwieldy. What do you do when you're on any computer but your super special secret agent manifold character set loader?
It's not feasible.
But the making a pattern using the four character sets on your keyboard is, and the range of things you could set up is unbelievable if also improbable.
You don't need complexity. The simpler, for the most part, the better. Especially once people are doing it on their phones and have to keep the thing held in SHIFT mode while they do a section of their string of characters.
So finally LoL I'll shut up, I had some of my wife's delicious food, I had some GREAT smoke a guy seeded me, for free. We let him crash on the couch awhile and he said 'hey I kept these seeds, the bag of weed was like... strong. Thanks.'' He gave me like 50 seeds and those things make some terrific weed.
Overgrow the Government.
Overgrow the World.