Passwords & Time Worth

It's World Password day, have you changed yours lately? Dangerous Dave talks about how easy it is to hack passwords that some are done in just seconds. Plus, what is you time worth? A survey says $240 per hour.

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the din withdangerous date. Today's world password DAN.
We're supposed to update our passwords tomake sure they're secure. Most common in
the US last year. Again,we're one, two, three, four,
five six, password admin one two, three, four and unknown.
None of these are secure. There'sa company called Hive Systems. They put
out a graphic each year to showhow long it would take hackers to crack

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your password, depending upon how longand complex it is. Basic passwords that
are just numbers can be cracked almostinstantly. Now, even a nine digit
number would take less than six minutes. Their software out there that they've made
to do that. But things geta little more secure as soon as you
mix up an upper and lowercase yousesymbols. Exclamation points help a lot.

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If you add all of those thingsalong with the numbers, nine character passwords
would take four hundred and seventy nineyears to crack, So yeah, make
them secure. If you really wantto be safe, make it eighteen characters.
It will take a nineteen quintillion years. That's nineteen followed by eighteen zeros
for them to crack. So you'retelling me my password using a zero instead

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of an oh not secure, Gofigure deeper in the two is your time
worth anything? Can I argue aboutthis all you want? And then get
back to binging another six hours ofLove Island or whatever you're watching These days?
They say time is money, buthow much is your free time worth?
The average American says two hundred andforty dollars an hour. That's a

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lot more than what the average personmakes. Forty hour workweek would be about
four hundred and ninety nine thousand dollarsa year if you made that kind of
money. The average salary in theUS is just over fifty nine thousand.
A third of people and the pollsaid less than fifty dollars an hour,
which is still a lot, especiallywhen you consider how much time you're willing
to waste in a day. Twohundred and forty dollars was just an average.

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Baby boomers said one hundred and thirtyseven, gen X two fifteen,
gen Z's two sixty seven, andmillennials think their time is worth the most
three hundred and twenty nine dollars anhour. That's over six hundred and eighty
thousand dollars a year. But bythat standard, sleeping eight hours a night
would cost you about seventy five thousanddollars a month. What is your time
really worth? You know, Idon't have any problem wasting my own time,

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but when somebody else does it,that kind of bothers me to it
again for another episode of Deeper inthe Den with Dangerous Dave right here.