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

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Post by camtarn »

fxfan wrote: post #116
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] -…

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.

Try https://www.rempe.us/diceware/

Disclaimer: I don't know much about this site and don't have any trust relationship with it. Have a read of the FAQ on the page and verify for yourself.

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

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Post by Freak_NL »

tjpnz wrote: post #70
ilamont wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the unfamiliar, "ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ" is an example of "bopomofo" script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., "ㄨㄛˇ" = "wo3" which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for "我" and potentially other characters with the sam…

It does have some resemblance to katakana. The first character at least looks very similar to メ.

Most katakana were derived from Chinese characters by taking a part of that character (whereas Hiragana are simplified cursive forms of a whole Chinese character). The メ part is part of many Chinese characters.

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

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Post by entity345 »

ilamont wrote: post #49
swang wrote: post #34

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"

For the unfamiliar, "ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ" is an example of "bopomofo" script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., "ㄨㄛˇ" = "wo3" which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for "我" and potentially other characters with the sam…

Bopomofo has nothing to do with Taiwan, specifically.

It's a system introduced by the Republic of China, and tha continues to be used in the Republic of China (only Taiwan left these days).

That's because the mainland switched to Pinyin in the 50s.

That being said, Taiwan has now also officially switched to Pinyin so use may increase.

Edit:

Another interesting, and old, system to write Mandarin using the Arabic alphabet: Xiao'erjing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%27erjing

Edit 2:

Bopomofo is in the same line as Hiragana/Katakana/Korean system: It simplifies and make things phonetic but still creates a brand new characters set inspired by Chinese characters.

With Pinyin, to me the main development was to integrate that there was already an ubiquitous alphabet in existence, the latin alphabet, that could be used and save the trouble of yet another writing system.

A bit like what happened in Vietnam (though obviously that's because a Frenchman came up with the system).

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

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Post by Moru »

cm2012 wrote: post #61
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'm surprised my burner password I use for throwaway sites hasn't been compromised.

Well, now it has since you typed it into a search engine :-)

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

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Post by mjburgess »

noobermin wrote: post #82

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…

I take "random" just being a description of the predictor, that they lack sufficient information to make a determinate prediction.

ie., I take probability to be only an epistemic description of confidence given information. And therefore randomness just a lack.

A physical system may be "ontologically random" in the sense that there is no info its possible to obtain to make a determinate prediction -- but that isn't randomness (which is epistemic).

That's "physical informationlessness" which is an (alleged) feature of a physical system that leads to n "inevitable randomness" in our predictions of it.

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

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Post by Double_a_92 »

shubhamjain wrote: post #14
shawnz wrote: 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?

You said you were 15 and it was a very popular software that needed to be installed relatively often.

I guess people on here are 30-ish, so it happened 15 years ago in the 00s. This hints strongly towards WinXP, which has a few famous leaked Serials.

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

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Post by entity345 »

tjpnz wrote: post #70
ilamont wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the unfamiliar, "ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ" is an example of "bopomofo" script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., "ㄨㄛˇ" = "wo3" which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for "我" and potentially other characters with the sam…

It does have some resemblance to katakana. The first character at least looks very similar to メ.

Yes, katakana is inspired by Chinese characters... roll eyes.

For example, the Katakana character you mention is directly taken from Chinese.

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

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Post by KayEss »

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] -…

My ~/bin/makepass file:

    #! /bin/bash
    cat /dev/urandom | base64 --wrap ${1:-"10"} | head -n 1
Defaults to 10 character passwords, but you can put bigger numbers as the first argument. I don't think the `base64` command is on the Mac, so probably won't work there.

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

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Post by james_a_craig »

cantrevealname wrote: post #71
meruru wrote: post #29

Let this thread be a reminder for everyone to use a password manager.

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…

I use https://pwsafe.org/ (or a few other file-format compatible apps on different platforms) and keep my password file (still with its own passphrase) in a keybase ( https://keybase.io/ ) private filesystem. Keybase's filesystem does a dropbox-style thing to take care of sync, and pwsafe doesn't need to know anything about the internet.

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

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Post by Freak_NL »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I tend to browse HN at 130% zoom, Chinese characters render quite well at that zoom too. Even for English the text size here is rather small though. You don't need to see all the details to recognize words made from Chinese characters though, context (neighbouring characters) and general knowledge of the common characters help fill in the blanks.
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