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

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Post by glastra »

nyolfen wrote: post #64
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…

lol, when i was 9 or 10 i memorized 'the big cheat' for turok 64, which i can also recite today -- nthgthdgdcrtdtrk turns out 204 other people can too! (though apparently not in all caps) never used it as a password but i can see why one would

"On the eigth day, God created Turok" without vowels :)

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

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Post by bluedino »

fxfan wrote: post #114
osrec wrote: post #17

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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!

Popular electronics stores would do a in-store setup of your computer before you left with it. Part of this involved entering the users name and windows key.

I probably used the same key to setup over 1000 PC's when I worked there.

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

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Post by Symmetry »

andrewflnr wrote: post #96
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…

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?

The degeneracy of a macrostate is just a matter of the Hamiltonian but what counts as a macrostate is, in a sense, arbitrary.

It's really just a state you, the observer, can distinguish. This would typically involve things like pressure, volume, and temperature but if you developed a new way of measuring the properties of a system suddenly the possible macrostates multiply in number, each contains fewer microstates, and the entropy of the state decreases. Take this far enough and you could create a Maxwell's Demon to extract energy from thermal motion. But while it's subjective in some sense it was later shown that our subjective knowledge of the world is limited by the laws of physics in other ways and perfect subjective knowledge is impossible.

So you could say that entropy is a measure of your ignorance about the exact state of the world, which corresponds nicely to the information theory definition. It's just that in physics everyone is in practice going to be using the same pressure, temperature, and volume measurements while in information theory what constitutes a macrostate is very fuzzy.

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

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

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?

This is part of the reason why much larger phones are currently in fashion, and why in Asian countries you'll see people walking around with their phone about a foot in front of their face. It was a real revelation to me when it finally clicked. :)

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

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Post by Symmetry »

meruru wrote: post #92
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] -…

Better to use the `pwgen` command for that. There's no guarantee the passwords from that site are really random / not being stored.

I tend to use `gpw` because while it has less entropy per character I can easily memorize a much longer password if its pronounceable.

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

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Post by abricot »

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

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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

Devil's Own

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

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

atm0sphere wrote: post #73
shawnz wrote: post #11

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Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Wow. I remember this key too. It's amazing how far we've come from those days..just think, each open chrome tab takes up as much memory as your entire machine had back then.

That says something just as much about Chrome as it does about "how far we've come"

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

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Post by FabHK »

z29LiTp5qUC30n wrote: post #207
dTal wrote: post #167

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While you're correct mathematically, I still think it's a good habit to give zero information about your password. If you attempt to estimate the information leakage with every "hint", sooner or later you'll slip up.

My view is your secrets should be secure even if the attacker knows everything about how they are generated and used. For example: My password is 8192 characters long, leveraging only the ASCII character set (except \n\r\t\0) It is changed every 28days at 11:05am It is only used on exactly 1 website and the username on that website is also only used on that website and randomly generated as well. Good luck (Tell me h…

With your username, I actually believe you...

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

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Post by meruru »

maksimum wrote: post #124
meruru wrote: post #58

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What do mean by giving up entropy? Password reuse? You can use a password manager to generate a secure pass for every site, there's no excuse for weak passwords. Here's a few I made with `pwgen`, get it while it's hot: aiPh9toh_ti{XeS(a=a9ohCheeV`o8pu8woh3Epu ahth6AiT6xahaiw:ie1li`xeeF0ohf!ikeih4Joh zah6cusohNei6feithain4aeH5uul5coh/nap0ea uet7ed"ohhooquoosh3ooh8ZeeY+iepeg0eewena UuNg'aes:i!Quohp0eiGh1ibieghe&o9eiSh7…

I'd like to try out #3. "zah" has a nice ring to it. Do you guys minding not using it?

It's yours :)
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