March 22, 2016 Meeting: Mark Wirganowicz and Derek Burrows, Facilitators
Apple ID
- An online account used to download and install applications from the App Store, manage your iCloud data, and download/purchase entertainment content such as movies, music, and books (iTunes/iBooks/AppleTV).
- Username: is an email address
- Password: at least 8 characters, at least 1 capital letter, at least 1 numeral
- Manage your account online:https://appleid.apple.com
- If you forgot your AppleID password: https://iforgot.apple.com
Examples of bad passwords
- 12345678
- Password
- qwerty
- f*ckyouhackers
- Letmein
- Using a common word that can be found in a dictionary
- Using any sort of personal info (names, birthdays, social security numbers, current addresses)
- Replacing letters with numerals in common words: MapleStreet => M4pleStr33t
– or- Mimosa => M1m0sa
Password Poems
Study by Ghazvininejad & Knight, 2015 – Univ. of Southern California
Long human history of oral storytelling and poems. Rhyming poetry has long been used by humans to increase memorability.
The researchers found that by creating a short rhyming poem of random words, a very secure (difficult to hack) yet easy to remember password could be created.
Their formula employs a rhyming iambic tetrameter couplet format, with two lines with eight syllables each, ending with rhyming words.
Sample password generator (do not use any of these!!): http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/poem/poem.php
An example from the above site:
Discarding rafters substitutes
campaigns Miami prostitutes
A truly random (and safe) password can be generated here: http://52.24.230.241/bc/password_generation.php
Password Phrases
Think of a phrase you will always remember
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
Take the first letter of each word.
afahmasp
Add some capital letters.
AfahMasp
Add some special characters & numbers.
Afah%Masp38
Voila! Easy to remember and just as hard to crack as a randomly generated sequence of characters.
