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The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

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Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

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Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

Sorry to scare you! I didn't think you were still using it. Honestly, it was the first thing that came to mind in terms of "culturally important serial keys"

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

It's common enough it's in Urban Dictionary.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fckgw-rhqq2-...

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#23
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Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It's hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same th…

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

dgk7b 9rwyw

bound by the power of cerealz

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#24
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fckgw-rhqq2-...

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#25
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

It's a pretty well-known leaked key. And then you said exactly what part of it you used. Not the smartest move.

It's like saying "My password is the first 10 characters of a really popular book about wizards" and expecting no one to figure it out.

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#26

Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It's hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same th…

Word of warning, if you use an ad/content blocker like uBlock Origin, and block 3rd-party JS, then HIBP may give up on its k-anonymity mechanism and just sends your password to their server in cleartext.

Ensure you specifically permit loading jQuery from cloudflare.com, and check network traffic using a test password first.

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#27

Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It's hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same th…

I memorized my first library card number -- the library would call and leave a message containing the number when a book came in. 1000102772901. I had to replace the card a few times, but only the first number stuck.

Same thing with my first debit card. All the rest never stuck

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#28
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

It's probably the most famous software license key, it can even be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys

Re: The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

#30

Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It's hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same th…

I've done the same, though I never used it as a password. Back around 2000 or so I was experimenting a lot with hardware configurations and I had input my Windows 98 SE key so many times during reinstalls I ended up memorizing it unintentionally. Even today, nearly 20 years later, I can recall it perfectly. It actually came in handy a couple of years ago when I built a P-III retro gaming machine out of scavenged parts; I found a Windows 98 CD at work collecting dust on a shelf, installed it, and instinctively entered the correct key without missing a character.
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