Bill Ralston: Not all it’s cracked up to be

1,2,3,4,5… now there’s an original password for you.

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23rd June, 2012

Phished again. At least I think I was – it’s hard to tell. No, alcohol was not involved. Phishing is one of those nasty byproducts of the electronic age where cyber-villains send you innocent-looking emails seeking information that can help them hack into your interwebby account things to get your credit card and banking details. Recently, some cunning Russian hacked into the LinkedIn site and stole 6.5 million encrypted user passwords, put them up on a site and invited fellow hackers to have a go at cracking the codes. A couple of hundred thousand passwords appear to have been unencrypted ...

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