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Just worked out something amazing. When creating passwords you are often told that you need to use upper, lower case, special characters and numbers as part of the password. I have just worked out that this does NOT add much security at all. Much better to have a longer password. Calculations...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how a computer password is cracked, why cant they have full proof encryption. I dont know a lot about this. My understanding was that password cracks are "brute force" where a program guesses until the correct password is reached. But this doesnt make...

I had spoken a lot with my mother, about how much I really disapproved of Psychics. And my mother at one time in her life believed psychics were real. Which is okay, my father had died and she was alone with 3 kids. I think all she wanted was to know she would be okay, and he were okay. 21...

Laptop at work. Compaq Armada.Win XP Pro. No logon password. Yesterday, XP crashed. We have an application that can do that. Rebooted. It wants an Administrator password. There is none. Or at least nobody here knows it. Most stuff is backed up offdisc, but we want to get the machine...