The password 1/1

After getting my internet accoount setup, I have a problem. My roomate wants my password, so that he can surf the web a *LOT*, this pisses me off, it's not his bloody account. And, I don't want to risk the chance of him abusing it, and I get punished for it. Quite sad. He finaly asked for the password, I gave it to him, but I changed a few letters around a bit. This is primarly so he doesn't do the above. He will probably be pissed off a lot by this, but hey...I can chauch it up as he must have mistyped it. Heh...a true alpha newmaric password can be easly mistyped. Hopefully this throws him for enough of a loop. The funny part, is that the password I gave him is one of my standard ones. But the one I'm actualy using isn't. It's close, but diffrent enough to thrawt all but the most hardcore of crackers. Even my new password would take me about 1.5 weeks to crack with the hardware/software I have now. It coould be done, but for the most part, it's not worth it. six charcter passwords are pretty good, but seven, or eight...it rases the time needed to crack exponently. Although most systems truncate the password to 7 charecters. So, that's what I use. Aside from that, most people choose dumb passwords. They use fully alpha, and just words. Love, sex, god, secret, and password. these are the most common passwords ever. Thier are a myrad of password crackers freely avaliable, all of them work, or, at least work as well as they are supposto. Most password crackers are dictonary based. This means that they just go through, encrypting every word in a dictonary, and compare the result to the encrypted password. This method works well, and is fast, but it only works for dumb users, and on sites that have _LOW_ security. Any sysadmin worth thier salt, will simply have it do that before it accepts thier new password. So, the only passwords they can choose are true alpha-numaric. Its even better if they use mixed case also. The way I go about cracking passwords, is to try every possible password that can exist. Note that this can take a very long time...up to a couple weeks, if the person has a *REALY* good password. Though, due to the usage of simple passwords, this thing pick those out quite quickly. Plus it doesn't take a huge ammount of strage space. I could probably get passwords faster, if I used a dictonary based, then the brute force one, but, for some reason, this seems inneficent, unless the first one, can record attepted passwords into a database that the second one can read (so it doesn't try them again). That would be the most effective way to do it. But, then again, you still need a lot of storage space to do this...that is not an option all of the time. Hmm...azel, and james just came, and went...I was ^reminded^ to get the replacement parts for azel's car, even though I don't want to. He thinks, "he's got money, he can help me", but even though I do, I don't want to just give it out to just anybody. Yarg, and cigerete prices jumped again yesterday. This is realy starting to piss me off...It's almost to the point of saying fuck it, I don't need to smoke tht bad. At carton a week, and 30$ a carton, in a month, that's like 120$. that comes out to 1440$ a year...that is insane. Comes out to about 3$ a pack...I usto only pay that much for realy good smokes...once in a while (because they where so expensive)...but now it's the norm...and 4$ is common for a single pack...This is totaly insane. I'm debating about putting up some sort of protest. It may help, or more likely, not do jack shit. Probably would just make me even more pissed off, due to the innefectiveness that it would most likely have. I can't belive all this shit. People who don't smoke don't realize how easy they have it. Can I louse myself in you What else is thier left to do All the things I've tried All the times I've cried But, do you even care? Do you know I'm there? All the thoughts I want to share Yet, a crown of thorns I wear I don't know what else to do Hope, still, maby, in you -EOF