Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 27, 2023

HULK

Nope too short…

But he is right, “HERCULES” would be a good password, as long as you don’t go around singing his praises all the time.

Schwarzenegger?

The longer the better with reason.

Schwarzenegger might still be caught in a dictionary attack.

WINDOWS PASSWORD

WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.

USER: potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER: boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER: 1 boiled potato

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

USER: 20blastedboiledpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one uppercase character.

USER: 20BLASTEDboiledpotatoes

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one uppercase character consecutively.

USER: 20BlastedBoiledPotatoesYouldiotGiveMeAccessNow !

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER: IWillHuntYouDown20BlastedBoiledPotatoesYouldiotGiveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS: SORRY, THAT PASSWORD IS ALREADY IN USE

I can think of other “strong” passwords. For example: CorporalMittensLitterbox

The Rock Rocks.

Papertiger was rejected.

Cloberrintime12!

DoyousmellwhattheRockiscooking?

If you can remember it, it’s no good.

That’s my cat’s name.Incidentally, he’s a total wimp.

I’m going to start doing that with those sites that criticize my passwords as not strong enough. HERCULES, ATLAS, HULKHOGAN.

What about Thor ?

You could try ’’Samson’’ but it may be a hair too short.

A strong one that most would avoid trying…

LIMBURGER

It should be complicated enough so that you need to write it down on paper that you leave next to your computer.

Pam expect a very long week.

HERCULEs

H3RCULES

HERCULEs

hERCULE5

h3RCUL35

Un0bta1n!am

Here’s a password for you Brew, bR@!Nle$S.

The problem with strong passwords, is you need a strong mind to recall them. And then there’s Brewster.

Some years back, xkcd did the definitive strip on password strength, demonstrating how a few random words are more secure than these fancy collections of special characters. All we have been doing with the “strong passwords” obsession is creating passwords that are hard for people to remember and easy for computers to guess.

CorrectHorseBatteryStaple!

Let your cat walk on the keyboard.