Solution: Password strength tests

(upbeat music) … - [Narrator] Okay. How did you do? … Well, let's just try out those passwords … I asked you to evaluate. … We'll try the first one. … Oh boy, three hours. … So, not too good, huh? … All right, let's try the second variation on pool ball. … Oh, okay. … Well that would take a week. … Well, now let's just try orange tiger kittens. … Wow, cute and functional. … It would take a computer about 23 million years … to crack your password. … So as you can see, length beats complexity. … Even still, it's a good idea … to change your password periodically, … because over the last several years … billions of passwords have been stolen. … Let's take a look. … I'm at this website, … World's Biggest Data Breaches. … And I want to just scroll down here. … Here is just losses over 30,000 records. … And if you lay your cursor on it, it will blow it up … so you can see it a little bit better. … And some really significant numbers in here. … But really what I want to just show you is … this is 2009 all the way down at the bottom. …