OT: 2d password

Mark Carlson carlsonmark at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 16:15:33 UTC 2009


On 4/19/09, Kỳ Anh, Huỳnh <xkyanh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  This is an OT. But I feel that's good enough to share to you all :)
>
>  It's hard to make a good remember-able password. I've just found a quite good way: use 2-d moving on the keyboard.
>
>  Before continue reading, please type exactly the following characters (char-by-char)
>         pl,mnjio
>
>  You will see that we have created a parallelogram on the keyboard. That's great. Instead of remembering that string, I just remember a parallelogram which is very easy :)

<snip>

It's also very easy for someone shoulder-surfing to remember this type
of password, as at least one person I know has found out (qazwsxedc.)

-Mark C.


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