I was looking at a magazine and they were talking about the need to make passwords a bit more difficult to reduce hacking. So they had this nice little illustration of how long it would take a computer to hack your password. For example, an 8 number password would not take any time at all, a few microseconds. On the other hand if it were 8 upper case and lower case letters, they said it would take 22 minutes. Make that 10 letters and you are looking at 1 month. Make that numbers, upper case & lower case letters and symbols and you go out to 5 years! I don't know about you but I can't imagine anyone trying that hard to get past one of my passwords. The article said the data was from www.howsecureismypassword.net.
That site was fun. It is also a motivator to change a few passwords! Of course, I've got passwords for American Airlines or Duolingo; maybe I can leave those quite simple. Or flickr; what are you going to do, delete the pictures? No one looks at them anyway!
Speaking of photos: I was outside last night cooking on the bbq. I've been talking about how warm it has been and late yesterday afternoon it was around 113F(45C) out there. I saw this little hummingbird sitting on a rack we have out there IN THE SHADE. He was just panting away and just sat there even though I was only a 4 or 5 feet(1.25m) away.
Well, that's the excitement for today. Keep washing those hands.
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