How Simply Upper-casing Your Password Can Frustrate A Hacker

by hepya - 2011-02-14 ( education / tech / computers / internet ) [html version]

Simply upper-casing your password can frustrate a hacker's attempts

"A six-letter password in lower-case text takes a hacker's computer just ten minutes to crack, according to statistics collated by Bloomberg Businessweek. But make those letters upper-case and it takes ten hours for it to randomly work out your password."

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