WordPress Password Cracker ? ! ? – Oagalthorp
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Some guy on a chat room said he will hack my WordPress, becasue his friend has a “possword cracker”. I’m kind of worried, but I’m pretty sure he is bluffing. Please excplain if this guy is all talk or my blog is in danger.
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Unless he’s really technologically sophisticated, he’s full of shit. 110% of stuff you hear in chat rooms is bullshit or psych. Maybe he’s trying to scare you into talking about your passwords with someone else, then he can figure out what it is.
Don’t tell anyone else your passwords. Don’t email them to people. Don’t have them online anywhere. And then don’t worry about it.
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Make sure you have a strong password like but don’t use P@55vV0rD, and always treat people who say these things with a bit of scepticism, people who can Crack or Hack don’t normally frequent ordinary chat rooms, they run with their own.
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I know plenty of people who where “threatened” about being hacked. One of them was me. and none of those blogs were ever hacked.
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Your weakest link to a blog / website / email / ftp or to anywhere online is your choice of password.
If you were given one by a system then it is probably okay but you should still change it.
If you chose it yourself it’s probably a very poor password.
All it takes is one person to guess your password and they can delete every post you have made. They could change / read emails. They could deface your site. They could ruin what you have taken time to build. And all because you used a password you thought was safe.
You could probably take a guess at what passwords a friend might use – pet name, football team, birthday, school, favourite band / track … and they can try and guess yours too.
Keepass – Open Source Password Safe http://keepass.info/
(read the Wikipedia entry for more information) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
Download that program. USE IT.
Generate 16 random character passwords and use one per location. It’s pointless having a single good password if cracking that gives someone access to everything. So what if you lose a password? They can be got back or changed somehow. Deleted data cannot.
And if you think no-one will hack you, that’s fine. Just don’t say anything when it happens.
Your data. Your responsibility.
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