Gaaboard account hacked into.

[pintsofguinness]

Oh the drama of it all 

In fairness it would be pretty easy to hack someones username in a sports forum, most people just use they club they play for / support etc.. the lazy feckers

Tip of the day from DD12:

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS PUT NUMBERS IN YOUR PASSWORD, THATS WHY PIN'S ARE USED ON DEBIT CARDS, THEY ARE THEREFORE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO GUESS!!

You'd pay big bucks for that kind of advice.

Possibly the worst piece of advice I've heard, pin codes are inheriently unsafe as there is only 10⁴ combinations. You could run a script to try every combination in minutes, probably less. It's the other measures that limit the number of Pin entry try's etc.... which enforce the security.

Further adding numbers to a password does not make it safe. For example it's easy to match patterns such as thebigfella1 or theb1gf5lla. The best passwords are at least 8 random characters long (including non alpha numeric characters) and have no obvious patterns or sequences. Try using the first letters from a song lyric and then randomly introducing non standard characters.

then try remembering it!

My browser stores all my passwords, if it ever loses them I'm fucked!

[The Real Laoislad]

well i'm confused loaislad..... you'd need to explain

I would if I could be arsed

[DennistheMenace]

10,000 combinations out of a 4 digit pin which is safer than signing for credit card use.

Adding numbers to passwords makes it safer but obviously not crackable.

[thebigfella]

Oh the drama of it all 

In fairness it would be pretty easy to hack someones username in a sports forum, most people just use they club they play for / support etc.. the lazy feckers

Tip of the day from DD12:

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS PUT NUMBERS IN YOUR PASSWORD, THATS WHY PIN'S ARE USED ON DEBIT CARDS, THEY ARE THEREFORE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO GUESS!!

You'd pay big bucks for that kind of advice.

Possibly the worst piece of advice I've heard, pin codes are inheriently unsafe as there is only 10⁴ combinations. You could run a script to try every combination in minutes, probably less. It's the other measures that limit the number of Pin entry try's etc.... which enforce the security.

Further adding numbers to a password does not make it safe. For example it's easy to match patterns such as thebigfella1 or theb1gf5lla. The best passwords are at least 8 random characters long (including non alpha numeric characters) and have no obvious patterns or sequences. Try using the first letters from a song lyric and then randomly introducing non standard characters.

then try remembering it!

My browser stores all my passwords, if it ever loses them I'm fucked!

Not a huge fan of letting password be stored for me, never would trust they cannot be accessed by some unscrupulous individual

[thebigfella]

10,000 combinations out of a 4 digit pin which is safer than signing for credit card use.

Adding numbers to passwords makes it safer but obviously not crackable.

The pin will only protect a person against someone cloning their card from the magnetic strip or using the original card in a face to face transaction or ATM withdrawals. I can look out some stats for you but I can hazard a guess most credit card fraud is now committed through a means that does not require a pin. The pin is only one piece of a number of security measures to help make credit card fraud more difficult, on it's own it's pointless but in combination with other anti-fraud measures it may reduce the likelihood of a person being a victim of credit card fraud.

It extremely easy to implement a set of rules to try number combinations in passwords. Simply adding numbers do not make passwords more safer and given an infinite amount of time all passwords are crackable. The idea of strong passwords is to make it as difficult as possible to break, thus deterring any opportunistic attacks.

[ardmhachaabu]

thebigfella, I would echo everything you say about passwords and just to add my own bit of advice on how to create a good strong password that you can easily remember...

Pick a sentence or a song lyric or something you already know off by heart.

Say mine is 'I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree' (it's not but let's pretend)

I could have a password of Iwaagnagt1 by simply taking the first letter of each word and substituting one of the letters with a number

[WeAreBlueWeAreWhite]

On that basis i'd say your password is GSTQ1

[ardmhachaabu]

On that basis i'd say your password is GSTQ1

Good guess but no cigar

Mine is Iglypm0

[muppet]

On that basis i'd say your password is GSTQ1

I'd say yours is nnnnnnnnnnnntnl1

[Lady GAA GAA]

wats longballs site

[Mayo4Sam]

It cld be laoislad, still bitter after somebody "hacked" into his account & deleted it

Yes someone did hack into my account and delete it...
Don't expect the mods to help you supersarsfield they were as useless as tits on a bull when I asked them to find out who hacked my account

I thought you were drunk & deleted it urself?