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

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I'm willing to bet that a major upcoming security disaster is a compromised password manager that leaks out tens of millions of accounts and passwords in nicely structured XML that's perfect for automated attacks and frauds. Yes, I use a password manager too, but an ancient one that has no Internet connection, no syncing, and no cloud storage. The only "modern" password manager I've been able to find that works compl…

What I do is use a password manager, but when it enters a password into an app or site, I type a few more characters after the end of it before logging in. Kind of a secondary master password that's not stored anywhere except my memory and my safe. Best of both worlds in my opinion.

This is awesome! (I think). I've never used a password manager, because I was afraid one breach there is worse than many breaches everywhere else. But, I am curious, if I use a complex formula in my mind to create passwords that are unique to every website I visit, and I store those in Chrome am I not safe? The only problem I see is that I do not update passwords regularly.

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

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post #69

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I laughed out loud when I saw the sponsored domain registrar links down the page advertising “FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8.travel” and other TLDs.

.com is taken :( https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?checkAvail=1&tmske...

It's also got some kinda german meme on it

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

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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…

I remember to have memorized a couple of Windows serials, the reason that the Windows serial was used as a password by thousands of users might be related that some people didn't understood that they needed a new password and just typed the serial thinking that was the required one, or to non-English speakers, they could have misunderstood what was required.

Or just that after spending too many times installing pirated Windows for yourself, your friends and family, the number stuck to their memory. There's a whole spectrum of people between computer professionals like us and the computer-clueless people; some of them know enough to have served as front-line tech support for their family, but not enough to not use what's possibly the widest-known CD-key as a password :).

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

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

I'm only guessing, but this could provide a clue: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define....

What the actual hell. Who even remembers the key? And more importantly why? Why would you install XP once a week to remember it?

I'm shocked by this subthread!

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

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After a brief Googling, a lot of Taiwanese websites are encouraging users to come up with password by typing Zhuyin in English, and specifically giving "ji32k7au4a83" (my password) as an example. So this may explains why a lot of people actually followed the advice to the word.

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

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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] -…

Is there a similar site that makes memorable passwords but long? (basically I get entropy and can remember if needed). I use keepasaxc which doesn't have this.

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

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post #87

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

it's even on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys

If I recall correctly this image helped make it famous: https://marco.org/2007/06/18/wow-fckgw-has-its-own-wikipedia...

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

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post #11

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Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

dgk7b 9rwyw bound by the power of cerealz

What's this from? I have definitely seen it before but I can't put my finger on it and a quick search doesn't turn it up like the others on here - VLK for more recent version of Windows perhaps?
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