Analysing Passwords

And How We Don’t Trust Facebook Must Any More

We did a bit of an analysis of hashing passwords last week, and asked our students a few questions around their password usage. Initially we asked them which company they trusted most for their on-line security. For them, it was Apple and Google that were the most trusted, with Twitter and Facebook trailing. Facebook, by far, has the lowest levels of trust:

I must say, that this survey was last Friday, and was BEFORE the announcement of the Facebook hack, so the results for Facebook are looking bad for trust.

When I asked them about the subject they were most looking forward to it in the module it was Blockchain, Tunnelling, IDS and Cryptocurrency:

And for the risk of a hack, students felt that they worried most about Google Mail being hacked (as it was often their core identity reset account):