If their linking system is indeed programmed to match passwords (in addition to other factors) as one of the criteria to look for that REALLY spells some serious desperation on their part, because that's rather unheard of even for online banking establishments... :-)
I am pleasantly surprised that this community of people has had the kind of dedication and sharing mentality to have compiled such a long list of documented factors to always stay one step ahead of ebay's tyrrany.
I, for one, have always chosen the kind of passwords that I didn't really have to memorize. Say, I need to log into my gmail account.... I know my password would be a shuffle of the letters that make up the domain name of the website I'm logging in to. And this shuffle is based on my own personal formula. And I add a number in there to boot. To someone who doesn't know the formula, the password appears like a nonsense string of text. That's safe, is considered a strong password by most standards, and you will always know what the password. Every login is different. Unless of course, they change the domain name, which is very rare.
But with different accounts on the same domain, like ebay, this wouldn't work well, it seems... Clever *******s, checking the passwords. :-)
Actually, I have a simple yet effective idea of how to modify my formula (for the same-site scenario) to make every single password I use unique enough to fool a human being (if need be).
Last edited by adventmma; 04-25-2008 at 03:45 PM.
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