What The USS Enterprise Can Teach You About Password Safety
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Can You Trust Password Strength Meters?
Here is the short answer… no.
Let’s use the USS Enterprise as an example.
Mark Stockley downloaded the top 10,000 passwords and found this example at the 158th most common password:
ncc1701
it looks hard, but it is registration number of the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek series.
It is included as part of the standard hack database by typical hacking software.
There are always alternatives. Spock, “The Galileo Seven”, stardate 2822.3