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The 'Help with Correct Grammar' workshop thread

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About the same time people started saying I'm off the Saff.

It doesn't make sense though when a place is involved.

"I met Dave off of Leicester" :dunno:

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Two more that keep cropping up on here.

"Spouting dribble." It's drivel. Dribble is slobber. Drivel is the nonsense some people come out with all too often around these here parts.

"Suring/Sured/Sure up (e.g. the defence)" You mean shore up.

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How bad spelling and grammar could be the key to choosing a good password

Birthdays, pet names and your place of birth are already huge no-nos when choosing a secure password.

But researchers said today that the key to finding more secure passwords could be straightforward - just don't use good grammar or spelling.

Ashwini Rao and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University researched the current generation of password cracking systems.

They found that many people, on being asked to choose longer passwords, made them just as easy to guess.

'Use of long sentence-like or phrase-like passwords such as 'abiggerbetterpassword' and 'thecommunistfairy' is increasing,' the researchers say in their paper, due to be presented at the Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy in San Antonio, Texas, next month.

The researchers say that other types of familiar structures like postal addresses, email addresses and URLs may also make for less secure passwords, even if they are long.

They say bad grammar can make a huge difference, as hackers are increasingly searching for passwords using correct grammar and spellings in 'brute force' attacks that simply run through combinations of words in a dictionary.

Incorrect spelling and grammar can fool many of these attacks, the team found.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2IGsXzg2F

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