I keep my trading credentials in a "safe" place, also I made sure my wife knows how to log in "just in case".
As individuals we live day to day assuming we'll wake up and be there tomorrow. But you can't always count on that.
My passwords are sufficiently long that no amount of password cracking can reasonably find them before the end of the universe.
Wise words. Traders can act as though they will never die but in life the house always wins!
My wife also knows where all my current passwords are. I also have a sealed letter for her in her desk with the key trading ones, and a word document on her computer with screen shots. Every quarter or so she practices logging on and clearing all my positions including long and short option positions.
She is not a trader at all but can use both web and active trading platforms to reverse the up to 40 positions I might have at any given time.
What password length can't be cracked before the end of your universe?
Well *my* universe will end sometime within the next 50 years probably.
But I use minimum 12 characters, mixed upper/lower case, digits and symbols. And yes, I use all 3 of those character types in every password I create.
With current technology it would theoretically take millions of years to crack what I described. Unless something truly revolutionary happens in computing in the next 50 or so years it won't much matter to me.
Well *my* universe will end sometime within the next 50 years probably.
But I use minimum 12 characters, mixed upper/lower case, digits and symbols. And yes, I use all 3 of those character types in every password I create.
With current technology it would theoretically take millions of years to crack what I described. Unless something truly revolutionary happens in computing in the next 50 or so years it won't much matter to me.
Most would be shocked how easily passwords can be broken. The point of a password strength is to buy you enough time for the information to be useless to the code breaker. Encryption over a certain length would be considered munitions by some. The whole technology will be obsoleted by qubits anyways.
I had a heart attack 2.5 weeks ago, I have tried several variations of password to use Windows 7, but there are many things I can't remember.
Those who might have had this problem before, which password recovery program works the easiest/best. And yeah, I can't remember where I placed the written passwords either, or shoes, and about 100 other things I know I used to have.. Grrrrrr
Most would be shocked how easily passwords can be broken. The point of a password strength is to buy you enough time for the information to be useless to the code breaker. Encryption over a certain length would be considered munitions by some. The whole technology will be obsoleted by qubits anyways.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Just tried that site and came up with one that would take "1064784 Centuries to crack". I had a college class last fall where my teacher was a computer guy. He talked to us about passwords and how to make them almost uncrackable in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure another route could be found if someone wanted in bad enough though. Anyways using a phrase with each word separated by a character. Just a general phrase for every password and then add in the website name at the beginning. So elitetrader$I$like$pizza! Or whatever website name then the same phrase. It works great. Try using something like that on the link you posted and you should get a solid result.
The bank I work at we use passwords that change every 4 weeks for the wire systems and then little key fob tokens that give out a different set of numbers ever time you hit the button. Pretty secure!
