How Your Passwords Are Stored on the Internet (and When Your Password Strength Doesn’t Matter)

// June 20th, 2012 // Internet / Web

I tweeted this earlier, but I’m a big fan of strong (and different) passwords for all things computer related. I felt it was worthy of posting to Keefer Madness on top of the earlier tweet.

Lifehacker did a wonderful job breaking down the different ways passwords are stored. The best part of the article though are the ways to prevent, or at least minimize your risk.

How Your Passwords Are Stored on the Internet (and When Your Password Strength Doesn’t Matter)

One Response to “How Your Passwords Are Stored on the Internet (and When Your Password Strength Doesn’t Matter)”

  1. @ryankeefer says:
    July 17, 2012 at 10:58 am

    How Your Passwords Are Stored on the Internet (and When Your Password Strength Doesn’t Matter) http://t.co/7W0tKf44

    [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’0 which is not a hashcash value.

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