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

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Post by bigbadgoose »

kakarot wrote: post #60
shubhamjain wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't know the well-known part. Besides, I was assuming that this was only of the multiple, multiple keys. But, it's funny how popular it is, and that so many had a reason to memorize it.

Even if you've provided information which narrows your password down to ~5,000 possible values, you've effectively handed out your password to one of 5,000 internet strangers whom you will never meet in real life. Then consider that this is Hacker News, and how many of those 5,000 have both the skills and motivation to exploit the information you've provided. Never give out "hints" about your password. Not its conten…

Plot twist, he's actually phishing this forum for the "I used that password too!" comment replies.

_Taps side of head with index finger_

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

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Post by psalminen »

rjf72 wrote: post #208
fxfan wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

'Back in the day' regular formats were a pretty good way of maintaining system performance. They still are really but computers being an order of magnitude overpowered for all the tasks 90% of users do makes it less relevant. You'd be surprised how easy it is to memorize long series of digits when you enter them a few times. For instance FCKGW. Who was the president in 2001? You'll now literally never forget those 5…

That was the first thing I thought of at the beginning of this thread.

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

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Post by 0xfaded »

bovermyer wrote: post #230
jeena wrote: post #137

I once used a password which our IT department gave me and it was !'a;@,oq and at least for me it looked random enough. I had it as a root password on a server and I enabled password login for about 2 minutes because I wanted to resize some virtual hard drive or something and couldn't be logged in as a normal user and then switching with su to root because then the normal user would have open files on the file system…

I appreciate that you thought about your reader enough to alter the password initially for narrative strength. That's really clever.

I also use dvorak, saw the pattern and was expecting the punchline of your post to be "the sysadmin used dvorak so I didn't recognize the pattern".

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

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Post by shawnz »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #175
ceocoder wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I memorized the win95 one (legit copy) which was easy since it was just digits (and I was way younger). It ended in 18805 iirc. Win98 was a copy from a friend and already had letters, much harder, but I eventually memorized that to. It started with g3pdy bdkv7. Now that I think of it, a non pirated OEM windows key would have made for a great password. ;)

Perhaps it's a bit late for this now, but one very easy to remember Windows 95 key was "111-1111111"

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

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Post by kaybe »

ordu wrote: post #98
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…

> It's just interesting to me, another reminder that physics is just that much more easier than anything else. Such a statemenrs make me nervous. In the late XIX century physics professors told their students that they should stop learning physics and go to some other science, because physics is almost complete. It explains almost everything there are some small issues with electromagnetism which will be solved in a…

No, the point is that in physics you isolate systems and get rid of all the messy stuff.

Compare particle physics to cell biology, for example. Of course the first has complicated math and a lot of ressources thrown at it, but in essence these isolate the thing to measure. How would you even do that with cells?

A vacuum or laser lab may be complicated or finicky and capricious to work with, but it is nothing compared to a bio lab and the influences on the organisms you try to study.

At least bosons don't react differently when you look at them funny or with the time of day (we assume). (addendum: Like lab mice that change massively depending on the handlers.)

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

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Post by n4r9 »

entity345 wrote: post #203
wccrawford wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment would have been better received without the insult.

You probably don't even realise that comments like the one I replied to are somewhat insulting...

Firstly, that's irrelevant and doesn't make your actions acceptable. Secondly, indirect insults due to ignorance are more forgivable than a direct verbal attack.

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

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Post by 0x262d »

_ooqq wrote: post #161

That follow-up tweet freaks me out. What does that have to do with anything, really. I think it's rather unprofessional and would prefer people not make self-congratulatory statements about their personal beliefs.

It's actually good to promote the rights of oppressed people, and it's also highly suspect when other people pretend it's inappropriate to do so purely on grounds of stuffiness. It makes it seem like you either aren't familiar with what you're opining about at all, or you just don't care.

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

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Post by cronix »

I like how they took the opportunity of the popularity of the post to promote their political viewpoints on trans people (post immediately under first post by same author). It just makes the first post look like clickbait. Why do people feel the need to introduce politics into something that isn't political once they get an audience? Boo.

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

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Post by chaoticmass »

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 have an old password I made up back when I was 13 that I still remember. Nothing complicated, and it only used 1,3,5,7, and 9 (four corners of the numpad and the center key). 9 digits length. I made it up because it was easy to key in. I went and checked and was surprised there had been no pwnage.
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