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Why Use Strong Passwords?

Your registration requires a password to keep other people out of your account and to ensure your privacy. On the Rugby Reunited Web site your password protects you in many vital areas - it protects your purchases and communications with other members on the site. If someone can gain access to your account they can place orders on your behalf, cancel tickets, read/write messages and even mess things up so much you won't be able to log in again.

This is why we encourage the use of strong passwords. With this in place you can have total confidence in the reliability and security of the Rugby Reunited Web site.

To choose a secure password, consider the following:

• Your password should be at least eight characters long.
• Your password should contain combinations of numbers, UPPER and lower case letter, and/or symbols such as !@#*?. There are 456976 different possibilities for passwords using only four alphabetic characters of the same case, but over 1,000,000,000,000,000 possible eight character passwords using both cases, numbers, and symbols.
• The system stores your real name along with your username, therefore it is best to not choose any part of your real name as your password. Names of family members, names of pets, or any other personal names also make bad passwords.
• Do not use any word found in the dictionary as your password. Many password cracking programs use the dictionary to try to break in, since this is much faster than trying all combinations of characters. Foreign Language dictionaries are also used for the same purpose, so avoid them as well.
• Appending numbers and symbols to dictionary words also doesn't help much. Programs can easily be set to try word1, word2, etc.
• Computer and sci-fi jargon and acronyms are often used as passwords, so many cracking programs have a jargon dictionary included for words not in the English language. Jargon from other areas (such as legal jargon) is also unsafe.
• People like passwords that are easy to remember and type, but some passwords that meet many of the requirements above are over-used and easily guessed. Do not use sequences like 123456 or qwerty as a password.

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