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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".
I use colemak so I had neither any idea...
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It's a pretty well-known leaked key. And then you said exactly what part of it you used. Not the smartest move. It's like saying "My password is the first 10 characters of a really popular book about wizards" and expecting no one to figure it out.
Lord of the rings?
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…
Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?
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.
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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.
https://www.xkcd.com/936/ "Password Strength"
"Diceware" http://world.std.com/%7Ereinhold/diceware.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
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 memorized my first library card number -- the library would call and leave a message containing the number when a book came in. 1000102772901. I had to replace the card a few times, but only the first number stuck.