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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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Post by shubhamjain »

atulmadhugiri wrote: post #25
shubhamjain wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn't know the well-known part. Besides, I was assuming that this was only of the multiple, multiple keys. But, it's funny how popular it is, and that so many had a reason to memorize it.

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

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inopinatus wrote: post #26
shubhamjain wrote: post #8

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…

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

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Post by swang »

This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard.

Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you: ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ

In Pinyin that is wo3 de mi4ma3

Or in English "my password"

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

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Post by saltyshake »

shubhamjain wrote: post #8

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 did the same, mine was qqwd7...

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

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Post by codetrotter »

Speaking of good passwords, I wrote a passphrase generator once that I still use to this day. You can have a copy of it if you’d like. The README explains all there is to know about it but feel free to ask any questions anyone might have.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

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

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Post by iamgopal »

ceocoder wrote: post #19
shubhamjain wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Because bunch of us memorized fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8 for the very same reason back in early 2000s

:)

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

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Post by chiefalchemist »

Let's consider the scale for a moment. How may people? (Billions, yes?) How many accounts? (Min: 10x those billions).

Or as I like to say when I see stupidity online or on TV: There are close to seven billion people in the world, dumb shit is bound to happen.

p.s. You're assuming that those first 10 characters are random and unique. But perhaps, not really. Maybe it's two 5 char strings of some other significance?

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

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Post by cheeze »

ceocoder wrote: post #19
shubhamjain wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Because bunch of us memorized fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8 for the very same reason back in early 2000s

Yup. One of the most famous longer numbers out there.

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

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Post by stevebmark »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #38

Let's consider the scale for a moment. How may people? (Billions, yes?) How many accounts? (Min: 10x those billions). Or as I like to say when I see stupidity online or on TV: There are close to seven billion people in the world, dumb shit is bound to happen. p.s. You're assuming that those first 10 characters are random and unique. But perhaps, not really. Maybe it's two 5 char strings of some other significance?

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