Every so often you may want to generate and print out a password, for example when setting up an account for someone. SafePasswd.com now will print out passwords a bit more friendly than in the past (it can still use some more beautification). The result is a cleaner printout that will use less ink and be more readable. That’s a win for everyone.
Also pushed out a few small bug fixes and little internal tweaks.
At one point Facebook had a master password that could be used to enter any account. “Chuck Norris”. This is no longer used.
TechCrunch notes that we can’t say 100% for certain that this is true. It is however not an unheard method of giving admin rights to engineers, especially early on.
[Via The Rumpus.net]
An analysis of 32 million passwords stolen by a hacker from RockYou (who makes games for Facebook and other social networks) found that the quality of passwords chosen by users is extremely poor. From the article:
Imperva found that nearly 1 percent of the 32 million people it studied had used “123456” as a password. The second-most-popular password was “12345.” Others in the top 20 included “qwerty,” “abc123” and “princess.”
More disturbing, said Mr. Shulman, was that about 20 percent of people on the RockYou list picked from the same, relatively small pool of 5,000 passwords.
Odds are most of those users had the same password for their email and Facebook accounts meaning they are quite vulnerable unless they take action and change their password. Most likely won’t even bother.
That’s why we suggest using a password generator to generate a strong unique and memorable password. SafePasswd will give you a unique password that can easily be 12 or more characters long. You can fine tune what it contains (words, random characters, case sensitivity) to accommodate your needs and your memory abilities. Pick the strongest you feel you can remember.