CXO magazine published an article recently which asked the question “Are you password protected?”. In other words, how strong is your password?
The only problem with this infographic, is that it lists a password as unbreakable. There are no passwords that are unbreakable. To test it out, I took their password (g01111001110011101100e) and entered it into Google Mail’s password strength meter. Google returned a value of strong. That makes me wonder where they had the idea that this password was unbreakable.
For the record, it turns out all of my passwords are considered strong by Google. To get a better feel for the strength of my passwords, I turned to The Password Meter. The unbreakable password above registered as very weak. All of my passwords registered as very strong, with the exception of my Amazon account, which I knew was weak. It looks like I need to come up with a new password. (Which I just did. The new Amazon password is now rated as very strong.)
