...and here I was thinking a 4 character pin/pword has always been safe enough because it is easier to recall. Yet it is not prudent to use one pword for everything- email, banking, online this and that, voice mailbox and on and on. . . If we should ever make a list of all the passwords we have to keep track of. . . well.
Ever get caught in the grocery line, your debit card in the machine and promptly forgot the pword for that card? Then you close your eyes, air-tapping the number in your palm to recall it while impatient hisses and sighs behind you sliced the air around you making you forget even more? Hilarious, ain't it
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And after all that, nothing is ever safe, so a longer, more complexed password is safer to protect what? Surely not our poor mental state. So let's go for one big size that fits all - make a pword, the names of say, at least four places / things in patois and use it for everything -can never be cracked
. or can it, because everything can?
Speaking of safe: I noticed on the Lite Control Centre a lovely warning not to post / share our IP or Gateway address online. But don't I see Ip addresses posted on forums when people are asking for network help. Is that a 'safe' thing to be doing?