Comments on: Does the iPhone encourage insecure passwords?

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By: Michael Pate

Michael Pate — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:44:12 +0000

I temporarily disabled my WPA password at home (one of those Steve Gibson-63 character masterpieces) because try as I might, I could not get my iPod Touch to successfully connect into my router. I am hoping after a few days of practice with the keyboard that I can try again.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:11:15 +0000

I'm sure you're aware, but your default password keyboard is no more secure than just displaying the standard A-Z keyboard.

I also strongly disagree that this is reason to believe the iPhone encourages insecure passwords. That's a pretty strong statement considering all Apple did was try to make an easy to use keyboard.

By: Christopher Finke

Christopher Finke — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:15:43 +0000

Martin - when the shift key is lit (the small arrow on the right), it types in uppercase, otherwise it's in lower case. The display of the letters, however, is always in upper case.

By: Martin Wright

Martin Wright — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:25:39 +0000

Does this keyboard not allow you to differentiate between upper and lower case? This is an essential way to create a strong password. A password which only contains lowercase letters and numbers can be cracked in days but a password with upper, lower and numbers would take years to crack.

All passwords created at PassPub.com use a mix of upper and lower case!

Martin
PassPub - Strong Passwords, Uniquely Generated

By: Robert Accettura

Robert Accettura — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:22:52 +0000

I think there's actually some benefit from this. It encourages people to use different passwords for different things. I surely wouldn't want to use the same password I use on my online banking that I use on my cell phone when walking on the street and people can look over my shoulder. I think another major thing to do for security purposes is diversify your passwords. I wrote a little utility and put it online for generating safe/secure passwords using a variety of character sets safepasswd.com. One of the reasons why I made "memorable" the default is to encourage people to use more than one password. Hopefully if it's a little easier to remember you won't use 1 password for 500 things.