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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 creativityhurts »

This looks pretty fishy to me. There are a lot of super-simple passwords like firstname.lastname and then stuff like )(^!@tyukjas or )(klhkdgkajst2.

The simple passwords are too simple [ali@ic.fbi.gov - noentryplease1897182 - really?] and the complicated ones are way too complicated [I assume they don't use tools like 1Password and such].

Also most of the emails are firstname.lastname@... and every 3rd of 4th is Firstname@... and some of them are really weird, like SCAM@ic.fbi.gov - juyt8&81igasd, Bogdan@ic.fbi.gov - 19127gasdg8991872

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by mrbombastic »

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…

I think people that say things like that are just terrified that no one has any idea what is going on. :)

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by Retric »

INTPenis wrote: post #85
vibrunazo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's one ilovemydaughternancy with no spaces. Why would you want spaces?

Sentences are easier to remember. Yet grammatically correct sentences can give you things like capital letter, whitespaces and even periods.

Unfortunately, they also cut down on the search space quite a bit.

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by mburns »

vibrunazo wrote: post #61
INTPenis wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's one ilovemydaughternancy with no spaces. Why would you want spaces?

to make it more natural to type a passphrase

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by ZeroAntagonist »

mrmattyboy wrote: post #41
simias wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm very naive but I have a hard time imagining one would get into trouble by browsing such a list now that it's in the open. Thousands of people are browsing this list right now....

It's half principle and I think that I would worry about things like that. I have no idea what kind of monitoring tools and methods the FBI have and I don't want any attention because someone linked a load of passwords to ycombinator and I went to it expecting a fairly inocent article :)

>I don't want any attention

So you make a post about it?

Re: FBI got Hacked, Reveals Hundreds of Passwords

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Post by ZeroAntagonist »

crazypyro wrote: post #21
sonnyhe2002 wrote: post #11

So where do we sign in to validate this works? Purely for research purposes. Not saying I want to sign in another person's account, but just out of curiosity, where do we sign in?

The chances of them still working are pretty slim...

The chances of these people using the same password elsewhere however...
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