{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Dylan Sorrell (ladestitute)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-11 07:43:08 UTC","author_name":"Dylan Sorrell (ladestitute)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ladestitute","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/498494","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/1948\" class=\"url\" title=\"Cerulean Spark\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">ceruleanspark<\/span><\/a><\/span> A recent event happened in my uncle's neighborhood and some guy hacked into the neighborhood and gained control of alot of computers in the area. I'm suddenly scared, now. All a hacker needs to do (provided that the computer has a password set at the login screen) to gain access is to crack the password. How difficult (I'm accounting programs as well) is a +12 character password (using special symbols, numbers, and both uppercase\/lowercase characters) to crack? Any precautions I can take?"}