Learn from Bitcoin

[Grace333]

Just as bitcoin network and other cryptocurrencies wallets make use of 12 words as its minimum secured numbers of words as seed phrase, and it doesn't end there. Those words were randomly selected meaning they have no linkage between themselves. However we should also learn from this because it's the safest way we can make our data secured without the fear of hacks. In other words the use of 8 character password is safe however it's still a bit easy to hacked compared to a more complex 12+ character password mixed with both uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. Technology is advancing and technologists are looking forward to build quantum mechanics with very high computing powers and the only way to escape this is by increasing the length and strength of your passwords generally, especially in exchange applications or any other applications that has to do with money and sensitive informations. So when encrypting a file, an app or any valuable digital thing, it's best to use a 12+ mixture of character password.

According to hive's research this is the time it take to brute force a password.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/11/how-long-does-it-take-a-hacker-to-crack-a-password-in-2024

Check the security level of your passwords and make amendment if needed.

[Hewlet]

Personal security is an important aspect that the digital sector comes with and we can't overemphasize the need to ensure that we're protected from external infiltrators who are currently in there numbers looking out for ways to get access into your device.

The first step should be that if you're working with a device that allows you to secure it with any length of password, it's best to use a complex password that's deficult for hackers to crack and even more complex for an internal infiltrators to guess. Sometimes the mistake we make is to assume that the major threat we face is those that are external to us while giving those staying under same roof with us an high chance of getting access to our security details. As much as our security is concerned most expecially if you're certain of the danger it has on you should your account be hacked or getting into, you have to ensure that both hackers and friends and family don't get the previledge of getting access to some sensitive information on your device.

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password most expecially if you have the slight thought that there is a possiblity that someone has access to it but while you've done that its necessary to discard the old password that has been written down and the new one written down.

We can't entirely trust using of our finger print to secure most of our sensitive apps because it's easy for someone to add his/her fingerprint to your mobile device and if you're not careful enough to verify it, you get exposed to a lot of threat. Security measures isn't something we can assume to have known it all as most hackers are actively devicing means to outsmart whatever methord you're currently using.

[Amphenomenon]

Check the security level of your passwords and make amendment if needed.

Op thanks for this info God bless you, also I will like to bring to others notice that as you're trying to create a secure password don't forget it should be something you can remember because if you lost access to it then all your security measures is wasted.

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password most expecially if you have the slight thought that there is a possiblity that someone has access to it but while you've done that its necessary to discard the old password that has been written down and the new one written down.

This is good but not all time efficient, changing password routinely is not an efficient way of staying safe, it's better to avoid anything that will make your passwords compromise.

Though using complex password is important but we should always use password we can remember except on sensitive information example is our bitcoin seed phrase/private key which we ought to keep offline but we can't be doing this for every password we create just imagine having separate complex password for every platform it's required for?
It will be too hectic and this will make you access where you ought to safe sensitive information password too often.

[Grace333]

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password most expecially if you have the slight thought that there is a possiblity that someone has access to it but while you've done that its necessary to discard the old password that has been written down and the new one written down.

Op thanks for this info God bless you, also I will like to bring to others notice that as you're trying to create a secure password don't forget it should be something you can remember because if you lost access to it then all your security measures is wasted.

Certainly any password to be taken as choice should be memorised and if possible writing down for backup storage, anything that has to do with storing passwords on the internet, count me out because those are very harmful practices and single mistake could bring your world crawing down before your eyes. And our passwords shouldn't be made so easy that anyone close to us could get a good hint and use it against our advantage.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

However we should also learn from this because it's the safest way we can make our data secured without the fear of hacks. In other words the use of 8 character password is safe however it's still a bit easy to hacked compared to a more complex 12+ character password mixed with both uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.

Nothing sure for life, life itself no sure so no matter wetin you go dey use as passwords e still no sure. You fit put all the precautions yet if you no protect your password well and e lick online, hacker go still collect anything wey dem need from you. Wetin important pass for me na how you store the password. Make you no go use wetin you go forget if you no dey write them anywhere so as you dey choose the password make e be wetin e no go hard you to always remember or get a very nice and secure place wey you dey keep your password them and that place needs dey inaccessible.

Technology is advancing and technologists are looking forward to build quantum mechanics with very high computing powers and the only way to escape this is by increasing the length and strength of your passwords generally, especially in exchange applications or any other applications that has to do with money and sensitive informations. So when encrypting a file, an app or any valuable digital thing, it's best to use a 12+ mixture of character password.

Safety option na him make we no dey keep money for where wey no be we get control, if no be your wallet wey private key dey no go dey keep money there for long term. If na exchange no go keep money wey if e lost e go affect you because e no get how you wan secure place wey their serve dey centralized. The hacking fit no come from your side self and you go still lose your money so what was the need of all the passwords. There are other security measures like 2FA why you fit still dey use to secure your account so as you dey create the password no too overdo pass yourself or na you go dey cry here for person to help you access your account.

[Chiomaobi]

I gree with you one needs to secure his or her password very well and one best way to do that is to use a very strong password that is missed up with different characters and numbers, there are some password that are popular nowadays and people that uses this popular password always get hacked this popular password are date of birth and also using 123456 as password, I know of a some that was hacked by another of his friend all what his friend did was to find out his real date of birth and that was it.
It is advised we make our password a strong one this message is going to my follow newbies because a strong determined your safety and security.
And another thing please make sure you don't forget your password and phrase something happened to me a long time ago I received money in my trust wallet but I couldn't remember my phrase that I checked every were I couldn't find were I have written it that was how I lost everything I cried it was so painful so I will advise you store your phrase on your email or anywhere you can assess it even in the next 10 to 20 years.

[Kelward]

I thank di OP for dis thoughtful thread because one of di most important aspect of our online activities na to secure our private keys, especially where e concern money matter. If you suffer do DCA method to hodl your Bitcoin and at di end of di day you no secure your seed phrase and private keys well, you go de exposed to theft of di keys and hack attempts. I commend you for di image wey you share for di OP, e show say di more numbers of words and characters wey you take make your passwords di harder and longer time e go take for hackers to try to steal your coins.

As some experienced members don emphasize for dis thread, e de equally important to try to use words wey you go remember and to secure your private keys for different secured locations.

[AVE5]

OP you've done well. I'm not saying that this illustration is 100% guaranteed but it should have us the insights that the minor our secret keys or passwords maybe, so also our encrypted Privacies could be minor of being tempered or compromised.
A lot of persons including Investors would say they want use a quick and rememberable passwords or keys so that they don't have to stress themselves when accessing their wallets or accounts but doesn't think otherwise that the easier for them could also be easier for hackers to invade them.
Sometimes trying to make things easy for ourselves bounces back to us due the low quantity of decisions we make.
Critical pass keys can may take critical times and process before it can be broken that's why we need to ensure we've an utmost varieties of code switching of our passkeys to keep it untemper able.
But why we do our best to keep our passkeys stronger, best in mind that you're not exemptional to be hacked when a higher equiped hackers is up to you.

[Ruttoshi]

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password most expecially if you have the slight thought that there is a possiblity that someone has access to it but while you've done that its necessary to discard the old password that has been written down and the new one written down.

Op thanks for this info God bless you, also I will like to bring to others notice that as you're trying to create a secure password don't forget it should be something you can remember because if you lost access to it then all your security measures is wasted.

Certainly any password to be taken as choice should be memorised and if possible writing down for backup storage, anything that has to do with storing passwords on the internet, count me out because those are very harmful practices and single mistake could bring your world crawing down before your eyes. And our passwords shouldn't be made so easy that anyone close to us could get a good hint and use it against our advantage.

Nothing sure for life, life itself no sure so no matter wetin you go dey use as passwords e still no sure. You fit put all the precautions yet if you no protect your password well and e lick online, hacker go still collect anything wey dem need from you. Wetin important pass for me na how you store the password. Make you no go use wetin you go forget if you no dey write them anywhere so as you dey choose the password make e be wetin e no go hard you to always remember or get a very nice and secure place wey you dey keep your password them and that place needs dey inaccessible.

To me e for better say make we dey write all our passwords down instead of to even memorize am because no be only one platform we dey use. Some people get account for many exchanges due to our government wahala on exchanges, also we get many social media accounts with passwords btt account, altcoinstalk and many more how you go fit put all these accounts passwords for your head wey many time man dey think so many things for real life since e no good to use same password for two different platforms.

But if you write am down for jotter or book, come hide am where nobody to know say such informations dey, he go better pass. I don fall victim for the memorizing thing and my brain fade, I no fit remember again. Na only the most important platforms wey you dey you use e good to put am for your head by always login out when you are done, and login when you won access the platform.

Make we no go put too much security wey go later become problem for us at the end of the day because say we won over secure our assets and account.

[Salahmu]

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password

We can't entirely trust using of our finger print to secure most of our sensitive apps because it's easy for someone to add his/her fingerprint to your mobile device and if you're not careful enough to verify it, you get exposed to a lot of threat.

Complex password is actually nice because it will be very difficult for a third party to decode it, sometimes most people prefer setting their password using alpha numeric so that no matter how hard someone will try he will never be able to unlock it but however the idea of changing your password regularly without any attempt of unauthorized access I think is not totally advisable because you could end up forgetting or losing your password because regular change of password has cost most people a lot  so I would advise that after using a certain security method you should store in a way that can only be accessible by you instead of changing it all the time.

And also in the case of using finger print as an overall password is bad idea because it will be very easy for someone to invade your privacy, though even if you must use finger print it should only be  an additional security adding to your main password.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

Hacker go still hack your password if you are not overly sensitive and cautious when you are clicking on files and documents hidden with spam link, because hackers do mainly cloned a similar login page of any wallet where you'll be asked to input your password/12 seed phrase words, anything you type on the redirected cloned page will show on the hacker's control panel (Cpanel).
This kind of hack mostly happened between companies engaging on a business quotation deals using Microsoft protection outlook, the same thing still happen in this scenario too as well where you'll be lulled to input password on a cloned Microsoft login page, before accessing a price quotation of a product.

To safeguard yourself, be sure to use 2fa and other advanced security settings on your wallet and account. Hacker also buys softwares that removes 2fa, although, such softwares are very costly and hard to find.

[Fiasem20]

Password na very serious and important mata in the crypto world as we dey secure our coins.Security na the first thing wey suppose come our mind as we dey store our coins,and the security lies on the password wey you choose,e get some crypto wallet wey when you create account sometimes the password wey you go input the wallet go give signal like weak password,that weak password mean say na vulnerable for hackers to gain access easily but e get the one wey you go input letters, numbers and symbols dem go give you signal say na strong password.Now wetin Op dey yan be say if person select password with numbers, upper and lowercase letters and symbols wey be 12+ nai be full definition of strong password,inasmuch as we dey select mixed characters na to write am down keep for place wey only you fit access,the reason why you suppose write am down be say those mixed characters sometimes dey very confusing and person fit easily forget them.No be only to choose strong password but na to dey wise oh because hackers dey come up with new tricks everyday.

[Su-asa]

Just as bitcoin network and other cryptocurrencies wallets make use of 12 words as its minimum secured numbers of words as seed phrase, and it doesn't end there. Those words were randomly selected meaning they have no linkage between themselves. However we should also learn from this because it's the safest way we can make our data secured without the fear of hacks. In other words the use of 8 character password is safe however it's still a bit easy to hacked compared to a more complex 12+ character password mixed with both uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. Technology is advancing and technologists are looking forward to build quantum mechanics with very high computing powers and the only way to escape this is by increasing the length and strength of your passwords generally, especially in exchange applications or any other applications that has to do with money and sensitive informations. So when encrypting a file, an app or any valuable digital thing, it's best to use a 12+ mixture of character password.

Thanks for bringing this to our notice. However it's true that the technology of this days is getting more advanced everyday and it would be a very wonderful step if we start to increase the lengths of our passwords that contains a very important informations about our personal details. As days an technology is getting advanced, many people takes advantage of it and they also look for others personal details to use for fraud or hacking. The technology of Bitcoin is hard to hack, that's why no one can cram or know all the letters on his or her bitcoin address. However we need to learn from Bitcoin wallets, more essentially those wallets that has a seed phrase. Things that are easy to hack is anything that ask for forgotten password, those things are not easy to hack but the ones that ask for forgotten password are very easy to hack.

[Zigabel]

Just as bitcoin network and other cryptocurrencies wallets make use of 12 words as its minimum secured numbers of words as seed phrase, and it doesn't end there. Those words were randomly selected meaning they have no linkage between themselves. However we should also learn from this because it's the safest way we can make our data secured without the fear of hacks. In other words the use of 8 character password is safe however it's still a bit easy to hacked compared to a more complex 12+ character password mixed with both uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. Technology is advancing and technologists are looking forward to build quantum mechanics with very high computing powers and the only way to escape this is by increasing the length and strength of your passwords generally, especially in exchange applications or any other applications that has to do with money and sensitive informations. So when encrypting a file, an app or any valuable digital thing, it's best to use a 12+ mixture of character password.

According to hive's research this is the time it take to brute force a password.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/11/how-long-does-it-take-a-hacker-to-crack-a-password-in-2024

Check the security level of your passwords and make amendment if needed.

Password strength has become a thing of great concerns in our world of high and evolving technology, when one allows their password to be simple because they don't want to forget it, they are unconsciously exposing their account to a very wide range of hacking probabilities unknown to them but then there are ways out of it and as explained by your chart above which I know all information there isn't 100% but has got over 80% truth one should work it, but they should be aware of the risk involved too so it doesn't come to them as a very strange thing they will claim not to understand, increasing your password length and the mixture of characters both in Capital and lower case will help a long way in protecting our Information where ever it is they are.

[Kliss]

Absolutely, security is paramount, especially when it comes to safeguarding our investments. It's crucial to prioritise strong security measures to protect our financial assets and ensure that our investments remain safe and secure. Absolutely,  it's right about the critical need for strong personal security measures in the digital space. It's vital to use complex passwords that are challenging for hackers to crack especially considering both external threats and those close to us. Ensuring that sensitive information is safeguarded from all potential trespassers is key to maintaining our security. Writing down and securely storing complex passwords while periodically changing them can further enhance our protection against unauthorized access. The importance of strong passwords and secure data practices. Just like how Bitcoin uses a 12-word seed phrase for security, it's crucial for all of us to prioritize strong, as technology advances it's wise to stay ahead by using longer, more intricate passwords with a mix of characters to enhance security. This steps can help protect sensitive data and assets from potential hacks or breaches in the future.  Our security should be updated from time to time to stay ahead in safeguarding our valuable data and accounts.

[Makus]

Op thank you for this educative thread, this Na eye opener for many of us oo, because Wattin you no know big pass you. Omor Na to check all my passwords anyone wey no dey well secured Na to improve on am oo. Considering the information wey hive don give, i dey very possible this hackers for don even get more faster and advanced medium to take brute force password the only thing wey fit help us Na to increase our passwords strength and also not to forget the password as we dey make am long. Because from solving problem you fit go create another problem entirely. And another thing Na to try as much as possible not to too expose yourself, some persons dey like showoff and that one alone fit make you public target.

[AYOBA]

When is coming to private there so many of people's that they don't know how to secure there password, due to how some are so careless and one thing about the password once a person mistake live it una place that everyone can see and able to use one day you will just come your wallet empty, expecially those that are no use strong password to any of their wallets which they think them wise; there forgot that a scammers are very wisely pass them.

In this case it's very important to for we to learn how to secure any of our passwords in right place, because their some people's that they will write down there password on a sheet of paper which is very dangerous, why I say it very dangerous why if the this paper loss or where you keep it as catch fires they will not any solution after the paper have already born; it will good for if can be maintained all our necessary properties well this information can really help us all here if we can considering it.

[Judith87403]

Check the security level of your passwords and make amendment if needed.

Op thanks for this info God bless you, also I will like to bring to others notice that as you're trying to create a secure password don't forget it should be something you can remember because if you lost access to it then all your security measures is wasted.

Seeting a complex password is important after which you should write it down and ensure you've kept it in a secured position so you don't end up forgetting it. Routinely, you could set out a range of time you would normally change your password most expecially if you have the slight thought that there is a possiblity that someone has access to it but while you've done that its necessary to discard the old password that has been written down and the new one written down.

This is good but not all time efficient, changing password routinely is not an efficient way of staying safe, it's better to avoid anything that will make your passwords compromise.

Though using complex password is important but we should always use password we can remember except on sensitive information example is our bitcoin seed phrase/private key which we ought to keep offline but we can't be doing this for every password we create just imagine having separate complex password for every platform it's required for?
It will be too hectic and this will make you access where you ought to safe sensitive information password too often.

You're right changing password routinely is not good sometimes because at some point you might get confused you won't know the specific password you use. Actually I only have one specific password I use in all platform, I don't use multiple password because sometimes the reason why most people easily forget their password is because they use different password in different account. I still wonder why most people always use different password in different account, what happened if you use only one specific password in all the account? making our password to look more complex sometimes is not good because you can easily forget them, writing it in a sheet of paper is still very risky More especially if you have a wife or children at home because they can trash it at anytime thinking that is just an ordinary paper, that is why is good to use a simple password you know you can easily remember not the Way that will require jotting down in a sheet of paper.