I c&p that post (the two sentences, verbatim) into that site, which returned that it would take 51 million septuaguintillion years to crack.
I have no idea what that number is.
Glad to know I follow their top tip. I use a password manager. I even have a special note written down for my motherfucking Apple ID.
You don’t have to. Just type the general structure of your password and you’ll get a good idea. I didn’t type my actual password, either, just its form, and got something in the millions of years, so several orders of magnitude less than people here have, but I’m comfortable with it.
What annoys me is the restrictions various websites set up and which characters and keys are allowed. Me? I’m happy (but don’t use) with passwords that are long, but memorable for a user, but don’t use random capitalizations, numbers, and special characters. Those are easier to remember and often much harder to crack anyway. Like mine could be two Polish words, an English word, and a Hungarian word, and I get 10 trillion years (from what I just tried.) Or the first letters of phrase that is familiar to me, but unlikely to anyone else? Or that with a word appended to it? Problem is, almost no website allows it, as they want a capital letter, a number, and a special character – except for those that don’t. Some don’t want special characters. Some only accept certain special characters. Some require the number. Some don’t. I don’t understand why, in this day and age, certain characters are verboten. Why can’t it simply use an algorithm to decide the strength (as many already do) and simply accept it or not based on that criterium?
I’m glad I am not the only one, is all i can say. The password I so laboriously changed, Apple doesn’t recognize now, two weeks later. Fuck it.
I use a password manager, and it has two entries for Apple because of some fuckery I had to go through a few years ago to reset my Apple ID. I don’t even remember why, the only Apple device I have is an 11 year old 4th gen iPod that Apple stopped supporting about 10 days after I bought it. Not likely I’ll ever have a second Apple device, but if I do, I am confident the neither Apple entry in my password manager will work and I’ll have to go through the fuckery again.
Remember, 51 million septuaguintillion years is either the top limit of time required, or the average time required. There’s also the chance it could be cracked on the first try. Better change that password now.
Hmmm. iTunes just asked me to log in. I have no idea what my apple ID might be, let along the password. I don’t really want apple poking around my music, anyway.
Fuck Apple. I now have the last fucking apple product I will ever have. I traded in my phone and my blood pressure has been through the roof ever since.
Between unknowledgeable and unhelpful ATT&T assholes and a product that will never EVER take my password two time in a row, I would rather have two tin cans and some string.
I traded in an iPhone 6. I got an SE. It is smaller and in no way an upgrade over anything. I do not like the new iPhones and goddamit, I want the fucking start button. That is why I went with the SE.
“All you have to do to transfer everything the new phone is hold yours over this moving circular blob” and it will take you the very end of the process and …tell you it has failed. Oh, and you have to reset your apple ID password.
Every single time I have to enter my apple password, I have to change it because it is wrong. But it isn’t. I write it down and save it on the notes on iPhone. But nooooooooo
Fuck Apple.
You can pry my MacBook from my cold, dead hands - but ya’ll have definitely put me off the iPhone I thought I wanted.
I completely love all the iPhones I’ve had except the SE.
There is no such number properly named as 51 million septuagintillion.
If you had 50 million septuagintillions, that number has 213 zeros plus 6 (millions have six) plus 1 (for the “ten” of 50). Un, duo, that’s your six. The proper name of that number is Ten Duoseptuagintillion. To make it 51, Eleven Duoseptuagintillion.
And I love my SE.
Same compact size as my previous phone (“The iPhone 4-ish”), but with a much better camera.