An anonymous reader writes: A security lab at Carnegie Mellon performed a study on password security recently, and issued a warning about common user misconceptions. For example, ‘ieatkale88’ would require 4 billion more guesses than ‘iloveyou’, because ‘iloveyou’ is one of the most common strings in passwords. And the word ‘pAsswOrd’ would take 4,000 times more guesses than ‘p@ssw0rd’, simply because “In modern day password-cracking tools, replacing letters with numbers or symbols is predictable.” But then what passwords are secure in the face of these modern password-cracking tools? As professionals in the IT industry, what advice would you give?
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