Serial Hacker On The Loose

[Divine]

This message is mainly to Divine Right and other adminastraitors, i got on today, not in my clan, my units scattered about my set up board, and my points down a good 50 or so. Someone hacked me and another character named Hiei the Swordsman. The person hacked me, expeled everyone who was on at the time except for Leodude, who then the hacker gave Leodude the clan. I asked him how he got it and he said it just said that he was the leader of the clan.

[nads]

Standard Password Advice
There are many lists of password do's and dont's; see the footnote page for several examples. Though there is much similarity, no two lists make quite the same recommendations. The following list of dont's combines all the common recommendations plus one. It's been modified to some extent to account for password cracking tool capabilities. "Redundant with" indicates the rule is a specific example of an already stated general rule. These are listed in my estimation of their order of importance.

Do NOT:
Use your account name or any data that appears in your record in the passwd file.
Use any word or name that appears in any dictionary, reference or list regardless of case changes; especially do not use character strings that appear in password cracking tools' word lists or bad password lists.
Phrases and slang with or without white space. Redundant with 2. See below.
Use any mythological, legendary, religious or fictional character, object, race, place or event. Redundant with 2.
Use acronyms. Redundant with 2.
Use alphabetic, numeric or keyboard sequences; many such sequences are included in cracking tools "word" lists. Redundant with 2.
Titles of books, movies, poems, essays, songs, CDs or musical compositions. Redundant with 2.
Vary the character sequences obtained from any of the foregoing items by any of the following methods:
Prepend or append symbols, punctuation marks and / or digits to a word.
Use words with some or all the letters reversed.
Use conjugations or plurals of words.
Use words with the vowels deleted.
Replace letters with like looking symbols or digits.
A -> 4
a -> 2
C -> (
E -> [
E -> {
e -> 3
G -> @
h -> 4
I -> 1
I -> !
I -> |
l -> 1
l -> !
l -> |
O -> 0
S -> 5
S -> $
Z -> 5
Replace digits with like looking letters or symbols
0 -> O
3 -> ]
3 -> }
Use only the first or the last character in uppercase. Redundant with 2.
Use only vowels in uppercase. Redundant with 2.
Use only consonants in uppercase. Redundant with 2.
Use any personally related information.
Use anything you can imagine being collected into a list.
Use a publicly shown example good password.
Use great vanity license plates. In the future, may be redundant with 2.
Transliterate words from other languages.
Repeat any character more than once in a row.
DO:
Use at least 8 characters.
Include a digit or punctuation.
Use upper and lower case.
Choose a phrase or combination of words to make the password easier to remember.
May be two words separated by a non-letter non-digit.
May have non printing characters.
Use different passwords on different machines.
Change password regularly and don't reuse passwords or make minor variations such a incrementing a digit.

[Jeffery]

All good suggestions except that very last one. Fopr TAO at least. You can;t change your passwords

[psychofireman]

How do you change your password for the game?

[Office_Shredder]

Originally posted by Jeffery
You can;t change your passwords

Did you even read the post above yours?

[psychofireman]

would i have asked that question if I had read it? I am having a blonde moment... so get over it

[Rogue_Wolf]

You can change your password if you e-mail gold accounts. And thanks for the advice nads.

-Rogue_Wolf