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Hacking and Security / Re: Password Security ?
« on: January 17, 2016, 05:37:44 pm »
Encoding passwords has always felt like bullshit to me. It gives a false sense of security of your password actually being more secure.
Password basics are well known. More characters, lower, upper, special and numbers in a random order is more than sufficient.
Besides, let's say your attacker knows what encoding you are using (In a bruteforce context), they could easily just not include charactors outisde your chosen encoding, further compromising the passwords effectiveness.
Password basics are well known. More characters, lower, upper, special and numbers in a random order is more than sufficient.
Besides, let's say your attacker knows what encoding you are using (In a bruteforce context), they could easily just not include charactors outisde your chosen encoding, further compromising the passwords effectiveness.
, something about this link being nitty gritty:
. Ping, the term, comes from sonar an analog technology. It is used in a number of different ways, one of which is a computer term. In terms of "pinging" a cellphone this can be done a few ways. one of which uses GPS, one that uses cell towers, and again as stated by others could also be done if connected to a wireless network. However unless you get the data directly from a network provider the only other real way to track your phone is with certain services/apps. While OP may not know much about how this is done, his terminology was not incorrect.