On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:08 +0000, Jake Shipton wrote: > My next advise would be to do the following: > > 1) Regularly change your password, say every 3/6 months. Personally, I don't see the point in this. I think it's a fallacy. If they haven't guessed/cracked your password, there's no point in changing it. They haven't got in, and it's no easier or harder to guess the current one from a new one. Unlike in the movies, crackers don't get clues to when they're getting close to guessing your password, it's just pass or fail. The probability that their next guess might be right for your old password is just as improbable that their next guess might be your new password. And it's probably just as likely that if you changed your password, you might change it to one that they were just about to guess. i.e. *Guessing* **any** password, correctly, is highly improbable. If they have got your password, any clueful hacker will have put something in so they're not obstructed by you changing the password (backdoors, trojans, rootkits, et cetera). And if you hadn't detected them breaking in before, you're not going to notice it the next time. And it's hard enough to remember passwords, especially several of them, without having to remember changing ones. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
