Flying J / Good Sams Fuel Card Security
My concern is online account security. In attempting to change my passwords I was alarmed to find that I could only use 6 characters, which seemed rather unsecure. I spoke with a Flying J representati...
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Password security is only as good as your password. Having more than 6 characters does not always make it harder to guess. So long as you use at least one capital letter and substitute an extended character for a letter you'll be more secure than someone with a 10 character password that uses their dogs name incremented by a number. In IT, industry standard is minimum of 6 characters, even in banking and healthcare. Eight isn't unheard of, but is somewhat less common. It is odd that they limit it to 6 though.
For example p@ssW0rd (the o being a zero instead of the letter o) is far stronger than password1
Its far more likely your password would be captured by a key logger or screen scraping software installed as part of malware. In that case it doesn't matter how strong or how many characters your password is.
For example p@ssW0rd (the o being a zero instead of the letter o) is far stronger than password1
Its far more likely your password would be captured by a key logger or screen scraping software installed as part of malware. In that case it doesn't matter how strong or how many characters your password is.
