We live in a world where information = power, in which if one has enough information he/she can influence/change or manipulate someone life to suit. However its not just about having the information its what some people do with it. Belive it or not, one of the biggest threats that people in the world today face are cyber stalking and cyber harassment which of course is found on social networks such as Linkedin, Myspace and the king of social networks.... dun dun dunn!!! Facebook. One thing i am sure, and i mean VERYYYYYYYYYYY sure that i can take all of the money that i don't have in my wallet and state... out of 10 users who join a social networking site or who are on doesn't examine the privacy policy of these such sites. It is an important part of being proactive about your personal information, because the policy document explains how the website parent company plans to share or not to share maybe,,, the information you provide them with. how do you think spam visits your mailboxes by a miracle ? no, sorry its the internet nothing happens without a reason or a source. Lets get a bit boring and explain the basics of this thing call spamming. Take note that this is the result of a company/companies selling your information or well your accounts get hacked.
Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.
OOOOOOOOOOOOkKKK bleh boring stuff aside basically what all that mambo jumbo above was stating that at the end of the day, what we put on the internet is logged and recorded like a DVR and basically companies sell your information because information is power and well very valuable as well. Moving on to Passwords........ If it have one thing i am realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllYYYY anoyyyyyed with is when i go/visit my email accounts i see these weird messages from my friends,,,, i am sure you have seen the ,,, HI i just saved xyz on abcd or the HEY omg you just won a zillion dollars etc. Welllllll your account is compromised or is jacked up in layman terms. This process is basically hackers targeting peoples with simple passwords such as their birthdays, age, etc you know the drill. Doing such is a recipe for hack me or use my account as a spamming empire! Honestly probably in another blogg i would state my top ten measures to secure yourself from this but the number one rule which is the most important and most effective one is to ... SET A STRONG PASSWORD ON YOUR ACCOUNTS YAL LAZY BASTARDOS!.. yes my spanish is on point :). The effectiveness of security of increasing the length of a password by just one more letter, symbol or number grows in a very, VERRRRRRRRRRY, steep exponential rate.. (((in Trinidadian lingo.. it go protect ya rass))). The logic is a simple one... For every extra digit you add on to your password you triple, quadruple which basically sets a iron panty on your account from the internet rapists! The longer the password the more effort required to discover it. buuuuuuuuttt the problem with that thou is that longer passwords also means more difficult for us the users to remember it.. trust me I know lol. Let me show a little table below to show how long it takes for a hacker to discover your password:
No. of Characters | Possible Combinations | Human Hacker | Computer Hacker |
| 1 | 36 | 3 minutes | 0.000018 seconds |
| 2 | 1, 300 | 2 hours | 0.00065 seconds |
| 3 | 47, 000 | 3 days | 0.02 seconds |
| 4 | 1, 700, 000 | 3 months | 1 second |
| 5 | 60, 000, 000 | 10 years | 30 seconds |
| 10 | 3, 700, 000, 000, 000, 000 | 580 million years | 59 years |
Hope you people taken this blog serious because if you don't its the lazy persons that get hacked the easiest!. To conclude because i don't want the blog over long, setting a password that is complex yet easy to remember takes some thinking but it would save you, embarrassment, fraud, your sanity and provide peace of mind when you set a password that is suited for the filthy internet that we peruse daily bleh.. and just to show that i am not spiting rubbish, for this blog for me to access it i have a 14 character password and for all my social sites/email address i have different passwords. I am extreme about it thou so no need to follow my example but yet again
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