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Mike Little Keith, Thinking that knowing the user id (name) is a security issue is a fallacy. User ids/names are not meant to be secret. You user id on twitter/facebook/linked are all similarly discoverable. It does seem like knowing half of the equation would make it twice as easy to break in. But adding one more lowercase letter to your password makes it 26 times harder to crack. If you use a combination of upper/lower case letters, numbers, and special characters in your password (and you do don’t you?), then adding just one more character makes it 95 times harder to crack. So stop worrying about user names and add an extra character or two to your password.
Mike Little
Keith, Thinking that knowing the user id (name) is a security issue is a fallacy. User ids/names are not meant to be secret. You user id on twitter/facebook/linked are all similarly discoverable.
It does seem like knowing half of the equation would make it twice as easy to break in. But adding one more lowercase letter to your password makes it 26 times harder to crack. If you use a combination of upper/lower case letters, numbers, and special characters in your password (and you do don’t you?), then adding just one more character makes it 95 times harder to crack.
So stop worrying about user names and add an extra character or two to your password.
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