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So Cammy linked me to something that showed up in my gmail, I follow the link, and lo and behold, THE MAN YOU ONCE KNEW AS P1 IS NOW CAMARO!

(You might wanna fix this)

Fix what?! I don't understand what you want and what your actually issue is...

P1 managed to log in as Camaro and hijack his forum account.

That's bannable offense so I think he wants to be banned.

never share a computer accountnever use the same password for more than one accountnever tell a password to anyone, including people who claim to be from customer service or securitynever write down a passwordnever communicate a password by telephone, e-mail or instant messagingbeing careful to log off before leaving a computer unattendedchanging passwords whenever there is suspicion they may have been compromisedoperating system password and application passwords are differentpassword should be alpha-numeric

After thinking about this, I think that the link he sent you contained a session ID. Normally IPB removes the session ID from URLs, but for some reason it was within that URL.

pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Oct 18 2012, 02:27 PM) password should be alpha-numeric

For a while i included the domain into my password.. so my passowrd here was freeallegiance.com12345. But it sucked to remember a password for every different webpage. So now my password is 12345 but i will change it to "alpha-numeric" following to your advice.

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Oct 18 2012, 11:51 PM) For a while i included the domain into my password.. so my passowrd here was freeallegiance.com12345. But it sucked to remember a password for every different webpage. So now my password is 12345 but i will change it to "alpha-numeric" following to your advice.

Your amazon password: amazone.de12345
Your FAO password: freeallegiance.org12345
Your google password: google.de12345

This is also a dump way to simplify your password.

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pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Oct 18 2012, 01:27 PM) never write down a password
password should be alpha-numeric

Actually for most people it's probably ok to write down passwords for these reasons:
The category of people who break into houses aren't information thieves - they're after your TV, not pieces of paper in a draw.It allows people to use more complex passwords, and different ones for every site - people choose simple and the same passwords because they need to remember them.The people who want to steal your passwords (those on the internet) can't access your air gapped paper password database which is stored in a format not directly computer readable.
Of course, this is assuming you don't live with people who want to break into your accounts or you let such people see the piece of paper with the passwords on. That said I don't use paper since I might lose it.

Alpha numeric, helps but shouldn't go over the top.

Pass-phrases are where it's at since you can remember them and sentences tend to be very long.
This isn't my awesome allegiance password! OK!
You can substitute some numbers for characters if you want, or maybe include them in the phrase
I haven't changed my password 7 times.
Proper punctuation means you get some bonus unusual characters like ',!.

obligatory xkcd:

Make complex passwords, save them all to your flash drive, keep flash drive on your key ring, never lose your keys.