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FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by dickeytk »

matheusalmeida wrote: post #47

I'm sure this comment will be heavily downvoted but I read several times that FBI and similar agencies were 7 years ahead in terms of technology including security of systems. I didn't believe in those quotes and every time a situation like this happens I'm more convinced that they are no more advanced than the big companies (Microsoft, Mozilla...) and depend heavily on the updates released by those companies every w…

Hashing passwords (so you can never get back to the original password) has been used for decades.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by michaelkscott »

JakeSc wrote: post #50
matheusalmeida wrote: post #47

I'm sure this comment will be heavily downvoted but I read several times that FBI and similar agencies were 7 years ahead in terms of technology including security of systems. I didn't believe in those quotes and every time a situation like this happens I'm more convinced that they are no more advanced than the big companies (Microsoft, Mozilla...) and depend heavily on the updates released by those companies every w…

Just the statement that one's organization is "seven years ahead in terms of computer security" implies a fair amount of technological ignorance. How can an organization be seven years ahead of everyone else? Do they have Norton Antivirus 17.0, whereas the rest of us are using 10.0?

Yes, in fact, it implies technological illiteracy. But I can imagine what kinds of people would say that.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by INTPenis »

oconnore wrote: post #4

A lot of these are good. Some not so much... passwords123 passwored12 password$qwerty qwertylol@me passwords123456 password123 password111111

Not a single sentence, can it be that they allow characters like ( and % but not whitespace? Boggles my mind that people don't use more sentences.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by tankbot »

interg12 wrote: post #27
unreal37 wrote: post #6

All these people with "password123" as their password (and there's a bunch similar to that) should be fired. Sidney MacArthur, you work for the Navy and you have that as a password?

fired? seriously?

Since it's just the FBI then I would make it a retraining issue. And the sysadmin with such pathetic password policy should get some ass chewing.

Whoever wrote the code that stored these values in plaintext (if that is indeed the case) should definitely get the boot.

If this was the NSA or CIA I would fire them all and shoot the person who coded it. :o)

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by danso »

interg12 wrote: post #27
unreal37 wrote: post #6

All these people with "password123" as their password (and there's a bunch similar to that) should be fired. Sidney MacArthur, you work for the Navy and you have that as a password?

fired? seriously?

Or whoever is in charge of tech security, yes. I think the whole Wikileaks-State-Dept. episode showed how a global system can be undermined by the weakest link.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by slurgfest »

interg12 wrote: post #27
unreal37 wrote: post #6

All these people with "password123" as their password (and there's a bunch similar to that) should be fired. Sidney MacArthur, you work for the Navy and you have that as a password?

fired? seriously?

Would we be surprised if someone got fired from Google or Microsoft for making internal information readily available to the first idiot who tried?

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by furyofantares »

thechut wrote: post #43
mrmattyboy wrote: post #20

I don't like this being listed on ycombinator. I have now just gone to a site with all the passwords on, I was expecting an article about it. I do not like the fact that I have just browsed that page!

This is Hacker News...I appreciate the direct source of the leak. Not some shitty article that someone wrote about what happened. If you don't like it, don't click it.

The title is "FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords" and while it does point to pastebin, the title reads like the title of an article. So it's hard to know not to click it until you click it. If the title did a better job indicating what the content was, you could both be happy.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by jackpirate »

JakeSc wrote: post #50
matheusalmeida wrote: post #47

I'm sure this comment will be heavily downvoted but I read several times that FBI and similar agencies were 7 years ahead in terms of technology including security of systems. I didn't believe in those quotes and every time a situation like this happens I'm more convinced that they are no more advanced than the big companies (Microsoft, Mozilla...) and depend heavily on the updates released by those companies every w…

Just the statement that one's organization is "seven years ahead in terms of computer security" implies a fair amount of technological ignorance. How can an organization be seven years ahead of everyone else? Do they have Norton Antivirus 17.0, whereas the rest of us are using 10.0?

Well, they could for example invent RSA years before the public knows about it. (British intelligence did this). Or they could invent differential cryptanalysis before the public knows about it. (NSA did this.)
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