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He would have had to expend quite some calories to type that out every time on an ancient keyboard with chunky keys and massive travel.
How many fewer calories do I burn when typing on a low-travel keyboard rather than an old mainframe keyboard?
disappointed he didn't use algebraic notation. Could have been: e4e5f4ef
disappointed he didn't use algebraic notation. Could have been: e4e5f4ef
Earlier quoted context omitted.
30 years ago I cracked everyone’s Unix password on an old Sun computer. It didn’t take long because everyone had a password that was in the dictionary. Needless to say, people were not happy with the messenger.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I'm shocked at how well the old hashing stood up; sure, it's totally crackable today, but a well-picked password still took 4+ days to crack on modern hardware, which is remarkable. (Granted, it doesn't sound like they did anything fancy like throwing a hundred cloud instances at it or something; I'm not saying you should use DES today:) )
30 years ago I cracked everyone’s Unix password on an old Sun computer. It didn’t take long because everyone had a password that was in the dictionary. Needless to say, people were not happy with the messenger.
"No one will ever guess this!"
disappointed he didn't use algebraic notation. Could have been: e4e5f4ef
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, any sort of logic is weaker than random characters. But this was a long long time ago, hence the weak passwords. Computers couldn't crack things that fast. Today, recommendations are still based on what we expect computers will be able to crack in the foreseeable future. I remember a teacher used the password "music". We had every user's password in plaintext. This was useful when installing a new Windows domain…
On the other hand, being admin on a system is not that different. Sure, you don't have users' passwords, but you can still do arbitrary stuff in their name. Very large organizations will have some sort of system that logs this stuff and that you can't tamper with, but in a lot of places you could easily cover your tracks.
A slight nitpick with the article - `p/q2-q4` (more commonly written as "1. d4" in modern times) is not the Closed Game, it's just the first move of it. There are many, many other lines after 1. d4 besides just 1. ..d5, most of them quite open!
It is the beginning of the closed game, which is what the article says. Seems like a vacuous nitpick.
I'm disappointed that it followed a pattern like that, since that's supposed to make it easier to brute-force guess.
Yes, any sort of logic is weaker than random characters. But this was a long long time ago, hence the weak passwords. Computers couldn't crack things that fast. Today, recommendations are still based on what we expect computers will be able to crack in the foreseeable future. I remember a teacher used the password "music". We had every user's password in plaintext. This was useful when installing a new Windows domain…
Teacher had password written on the BACK of the clipboard they carried around everywhere.
Said teacher's password was 'qwerty'.
(Yes, it worked)