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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?
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.
It's a bit sad to see how people in a position to formulate password suggestions on a register form can fail so hard at realizing that a uniform transformation of a dictionary word will still be prone to dictionary attacks.
I'm a scientist. Information theory always felt curious to me because it adopted terminology and concepts similar to that from statistical mechanics but in practice was always much more difficult due to what could be considered what was "random" vs. what was non-random. After sitting back and thinking about it, what is considered "random" of course is a statement of the probability distribution for the set under cons…
Hold up. In my physics classes, no one ever gave me a straight answer on what constituted a "macrostate". It always sounded arbitrary for similar reasons to the ones you describe for language. Are you telling me it's literally defined by the energy of the system (the Hamiltonian, right?) alone?
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
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] -…
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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!
Within those 2 minutes some chinese hacker scripts took over the server and started DDosing some chinese IP adresses. We had to shut it down and blast it and set it up from scratch again.
I later found out that this password was everything but random. It was difficult for me to see because I've been using Dvorak for a couple of years now and didn't see the pattern that it was just the first two rows of the characters on a qwerty keyboard. So actually it was !qaz@wsx (I just put the Dvorak version on top of the comment to give you the same unknown feeling for the password which I had back then.)
I've never reused any passwords since then and always create new ones with my password manager.
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.
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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?)
So, what does the "piracy" aspect matter now? In retrospect, it just got copied onto hard drives a lot. Big deal.