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

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Post by thratchnee »

titanix2 wrote: post #97
thratchnee wrote: post #74

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo Wikipedia says it was created under the Beiyang Government so no. Also bopomofo is an alphabet (seperate characters for consonants and vowels) where as katakana/hiragana are syllabaries However all three systems are derived from regular Chinese script. Hiragana is derived from cursive Chinese script, Katakana from radicals used as shorthand for certain characters, and Bopomofo…

It's not an alphabet, it's a semi-syllabary (and that's written on the page you linked). There is no separate characters for consonants and vowels but instead a separation between consonants and rhymes. Rhymes can be made of one or multiples vowels, and can be terminated by a consonant (/n/, /ŋ/).

Ok good point, but still a different system from Hiragana/Katakana.

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

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Post by eitland »

meruru wrote: post #90
jen729w wrote: post #52

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One of the password generation tools -- so long ago I forget which one, but probably 1Password -- generated a password for me, and I loved the scheme it used. I still use a variety of it but now I make them up myself. The rules: 1. Make up a short nonsense word (so it's pronounceable). 2. Pick 3 numbers. 3. Make up another short nonsense word. 4. Concat them with hyphens, capitalising the first letter. So let's go wi…

An attacker that knows your algorithm can restrict the search space to only sequences that follow the algorithm.

That's why when I describe my password generation scheme - which is kind of similar - I never pinpoint it. Oh, and I don't necessarily stick to it as long as the result is a good password ;-)

But yes, entropy is lost if you decide it has to be pronounceable. On the other hand pronounceable is in the eye of the beholder and a it allows me to memorize long sequences of nonsense (up to the point where it gets annoying to type for someone who consequently lock his computer every time.)

For everyone who are just starting to think of this here are some more tips:

- Do store passwords in a password manager! The only reason to memorize passwords is because you need the password for your password manager and your OS and certain other things available even if you aren't logged in to your password manager.

- Use real two factor auth whenever possible. Please be aware though that just adding "sms something" doesn't necessarily make things more secure. A common (AFAIK, and sadly) mistake seems to be to use SMS for both password reset and for the second factor. In this case whoever gets access to you phone for just a moment can reset your password and immediately get a "2-factor" login code as well. (Scare quotes because this isn't 2-factor since one only needs access to one thing, the phone, to get access in this case.)

- Some people will say that using SMS at all is hopeless, but from what I can see they can still make sense in a number of cases: not everyone has targetet attacks from three letter agencies (domestic or foreign) as part of their threat model. More people have - or should have - a point about losing access to login information as part of their threat model I guess.

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

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Post by rangibaby »

shubhamjain wrote: post #14
shawnz wrote: post #11

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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?

I guess Win XP would be one of the world's most pirated software (ever?)

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

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Post by Alterlife »

qlk1123 wrote: post #86
swang wrote: post #77

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幹你娘. Motherfucker, (lit. "fuck your mom")

Just for etymology correctness, "姦爾娘" would be better than "幹你娘".

There is a lot of detail in those characters. Do you use larger a font size for this script?

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

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Post by juliusmusseau »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #83
alainchabat wrote: post #75

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Was lurking profiles of the Taiwanese crowd on HN. How is it to work as a Software engineer in Kaoshuing?

I left in August last year and am now in New Zealand. I wrote control systems software at a factory making USB, SD, microSD cards - so many good memories. Email me if you'd like to chat about it more!

"So many good memories" - ha ha!

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

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Post by qlk1123 »

Alterlife wrote: post #105
qlk1123 wrote: post #86

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Just for etymology correctness, "姦爾娘" would be better than "幹你娘".

There is a lot of detail in those characters. Do you use larger a font size for this script?

Size 14 is usually good enough for me, 9~12 are readable/acceptable, and 16+ are comfortable.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

cyberferret wrote: post #53

I just keep the RandomKeyGen [0] site on the top of my bookmarks, and whenever I need to set a password for a newly spun up server, or SQL DBA admin password etc., I just pick a random one from there. Advantage over a password manager? - sometimes I have to document what the password is in offline technical notes or a password vault for the customer, and doing it this way lets me kill two birds with one stone. [0] -…

I've always used the "password assistant" built-in to macOS's keychain when I need to generate passwords.

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

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Post by gdy »

83457 wrote: post #27
thaumasiotes wrote: post #12

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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

Yep. I remember the big eyes of a bank clerk after she asked me to fill in some form regarding my card and I wrote the number without looking at the card.
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