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The password format is surely the most common password pattern that everyone seems to have independently adopted
edit: title is "You Should Probably Change Your Password! | Michael McIntyre Netflix Special" if you prefer to search on youtube yourself
“We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government.”
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter...
I can't really see a situation where the need for "authenticity" of a person/account meets the bar for needing verification, but not be considered important enough for basic security practices.
The password was maga2020 infinite_facepalm.gif
Off topic: how do you format text on Hacker News? I never knew it was possible to use italics.
for(code blocks) { ... }
IMO anyone using internet must be taught about Passwords and how non guessable strong password can prevent(to some extent) these kind of attacks (cracking the account).
* Letters - check
* Numbers - check
* Special symbols - check
So the new, secure, password should be Maga2020!
There is absolutely no evidence in the article (not even links or screenshots of his tweet reaching out to the White House).
Furthermore I can't believe Trump's account is even going through regular authentication mechanisms. It should be trivial to restrict access to an account to certain address ranges of a government VPN.
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Agreed. If the password was that simple it would have hacked a while back
I mean who knows how many intelligence agencies are reading his DM's. If I knew Trumps password I wouldn't do anything that would make it clear that I knew it.
I'd be surprised if Twitter didn't have access logs. Anyway if his campaign team had the password, there may be nothing of value in those dms.
The password format is surely the most common password pattern that everyone seems to have independently adopted
Plus, if you're missing a requirement when trying to set your password, the easiest thing to do is just append the missing requirement at the end. Especially if it's punctuation, which naturally goes at the end of words/sentences anyway.
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* maga2020!
It's got everything a strong password needs. Letters, numbers, and special characters!