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Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?
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.
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I left in August last year and am now in New Zealand. I wrote control systems software at a factory making USB, SD, microSD cards - so many good memories. Email me if you'd like to chat about it more!
"So many good memories" - ha ha!
I posted a Show HN last night for a side project I’ve built that can solve the email part of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19296936
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Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?
Because bunch of us memorized fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8 for the very same reason back in early 2000s
Now that I think of it, a non pirated OEM windows key would have made for a great password. ;)
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The hilarious part is these are used as examples to illustrate an algorithm, not to suggest you use them as actual secrets.
No, the algorithms are bad as well. Transformed dictionary is hardly any better than dictionary if the transformation isn't unique. All those annoying rules about required character classes are mainly there to prevent dictionary attacks, but "s3cr3t" is not much of an improvement over "secret" ("s4cr5t" would, because it's not the result of a popular transformation).
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.
Most of twitter seems to be self-congratulatory posts about users' beliefs
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"?
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Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?
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.
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For the unfamiliar, "ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ" is an example of "bopomofo" script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., "ㄨㄛˇ" = "wo3" which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for "我" and potentially other characters with the sam…
Bopomofo has nothing to do with Taiwan, specifically. It's a system introduced by the Republic of China, and tha continues to be used in the Republic of China (only Taiwan left these days). That's because the mainland switched to Pinyin in the 50s. That being said, Taiwan has now also officially switched to Pinyin so use may increase. Edit: Another interesting, and old, system to write Mandarin using the Arabic alpha…