What is the longest password you have ever used?

[dsfunk]

something along the lines of:

fvckthisposfvckingsiteformakingmeregisterbastards

 

[FlyLice]

supercalifragilisticexpealidocious

 

[Juno]

8 characters are the longest one I've used.

 

[BW86]

10 characters long

 

[Tremulant]

13 chars for my current logon at work. Alpha-numeric and mixed caps as well.

Most of my other passwords are between 6-9 though.

 

[FleezYT]

mine is "LeleleleYouDooDooHeadAbcdefGodzillaPoo3HahahaBestPassWordEeeeXxlolxX.exe" also i used it on a school pc lol

 

[IronWing]

mine is "LeleleleYouDooDooHeadAbcdefGodzillaPoo3HahahaBestPassWordEeeeXxlolxX.exe" also i used it on a school pc lol

I tried it; didn't work.

 

[Spydermag68]

1123581321345589144233377

 

[IronWing]

1123581321345589144233377

Spoiler

This number factors in Dishonored - Death of the Outsider

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pi to a thousand places.

 

[dank69]

12345

 

[snoopy7548]

I would post mine, but it's too long:

 

[brianmanahan]

hunter2

 

[Zeze]

hunter2

Hey screw you. Took my reply.

 

[Muse]

If I told you I'd have to kill you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I can't think of a particular one, but here's a fun challenge if you run into a terrible system that also has zero limits.

Do a backup of your entire environment into a compressed file, convert that to a sensible format without weird characters, like base64. Use that as the password.

Needs to be one of those really shit sites that stores passwords in clear text, if ever you need to restore the backup you just use the forget password feature on the site. Free cloud storage.

 

[sdifox]

1,2,3,4,5

 

[Lanyap]

π

 

[Spydermag68]

12345

That is my combination on my luggage.

 

[UsandThem]

password1

 

[KatGroot]

Okay, so, I have a password that is 9,602 characters lol safety if (btw, no, I don't remember it, I copy and paste it)

 

[KatGroot]

I would post mine, but it's too long:

View attachment 62458

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Bumped by a couple of weird spammers, but I have a related question.

Why do some sites pevent you from pasting a password? You must manually type it. No pasting (mouse or ctrl v), no password safe utilities. The US Treasury site even makes you use a video keyboard, you can't type using your real keyboard.

My passwords are not long, but are generally fairly complex including less common symbols. They are difficult to type without using shift and changing between alpha, numeric and symbol screens on mobile keyboards. They are not ones I can easily remember.

To me, these sites are forcing the use of simple, easy to type passwords, which are far less secure and may even be enabling the use of keyloggers to capture them.

For that matter, why do so many sites restrict you to the 10 or 12 most common symbols? They may allow the common apostrophe ', but disallow the less common backwards apostrophe ` for example.

 

[brianmanahan]

Why do some sites pevent you from pasting a password? You must manually type it. No pasting (mouse or ctrl v), no password safe utilities. The US Treasury site even makes you use a video keyboard, you can't type using your real keyboard.

because they're based on old password security guidelines that have now been proven incorrect by the latest NIST recommendations.

treasurydirect is super annoying LOL. my guess is that the HTML "keyboard" was an attempt to protect against keystroke loggers.

 

[Captante]

Safest (but NOT foolproof) thing you can do at this point is try to stick with sites/apps that allow 2FA via an "authenticator" app ideally on a seperate device for all logins.

If you go this route especially with your primary email which a disturbingly large number of things still use to reset passwords and the like, it will improve your odds of staying secure dramatically.