Leet Lingo: Difference between revisions

* Inserting Leet characters to passwords is actually a very effective yet convenient way of increasing its length and complexity, making it exponentially harder to crack, especially against dictionary attacks. For example, if your password is "Password"<ref>The [http://www.tomshardware.com/news/imperva-rockyou-most-common-passwords,9486.html fourth most common password used on rockyou.com in 2009]</ref>, changing it to "P4$$\/\/0r|)" puts your password past the length and character range of all but the most persistent hackers, while still maintaining enough visual cues for you to remember that it is merely your intentionally screwed-up way of spelling "Password"[[hottip:.:<ref>The human's superior symbolic solution ability is the reason why CAPTCHA images are still readable, [[Technology Marches On|at least for now...]]</ref>