Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Security News

Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say 193

An anonymous reader writes "NewScientist reports, 'Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.' Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm that targets grammatically correct passwords. Can bad grammar really make your password secure?"
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say

Comments Filter:

Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.

Working...