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Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by hdgvhicv »

roelschroeven wrote: post #205
wbl wrote: post #64

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You innocent young being. There are some gaping holes in your Internet lore knowledge, but it's been eons since that's been seen in the wild.

This recently came up in a conversation with family, and my nephew of 17 years old knew about it, and said it still exists. Personally I haven't seen it in a long time. I didn't have the guts to tell my family about goatse.

It wasn’t long ago that it was on network news

https://mammon.typepad.com/root_of_all_evil/2007/06/goatse_l...

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by avhon1 »

eru wrote: post #182
rjsw wrote: post #170

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See https://xkcd.com/936/

Why would you want to memorise a password? That's what password managers or even paper is for. (Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds like: It's impossible to hack paper from the internet. And, if someone has physical access to your stuff, they could install a keylogger anyway.)

Passwords in this style (passphrases) are also much easier to transcribe to devices that don't have or support password managers, or when sharing a password verbally or in writing.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by [deleted] »

mafuy wrote: post #178
johnisgood wrote: post #144

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sighs . Seriously? Good to know though, if true.

German here. Absolutely true, and has been for many years now. Some examples: - grade D, poor performance: "We were satisfied with his performance" - grade C, meh: "We were entirely satisfied with his performance" - true grade A+: "We were always satisfied to the utmost degree with his performance" plus highly positive and extensive in the rest of the reference letter. - "was sociable": alcoholic - "was always strivi…

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Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by johnisgood »

etoulas wrote: post #199
mafuy wrote: post #178

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German here. Absolutely true, and has been for many years now. Some examples: - grade D, poor performance: "We were satisfied with his performance" - grade C, meh: "We were entirely satisfied with his performance" - true grade A+: "We were always satisfied to the utmost degree with his performance" plus highly positive and extensive in the rest of the reference letter. - "was sociable": alcoholic - "was always strivi…

I wonder why there is no LLM that can decode this. Tried many times but it seems the models don’t pick up the nuances.

The perfect test for LLMs!

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by eru »

Terr_ wrote: post #295
eru wrote: post #182

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Why would you want to memorise a password? That's what password managers or even paper is for. (Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds like: It's impossible to hack paper from the internet. And, if someone has physical access to your stuff, they could install a keylogger anyway.)

> Why would you want to memorise a password? You'll definitely want to memorize the password to the backup service that has the last copy of your password vault after a disaster. :P > Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds I agree that physical security can be incredibly useful against a lot of modern threats... but we can do better. I wish there was a dedicated password-keeper dev…

> You'll definitely want to memorize the password to the backup service that has the last copy of your password vault after a disaster. :P

Why? Write it down. Perhaps leave multiple paper copies around with some trusted people, like your lawyer and a safe deposit box at your bank.

Your proposed device seems a bit complicated. You can get pretty far with a piece of paper and this protocol:

Construct your password from two parts. (1) random gibberish you write down on paper, (2) a 'correct horse battery staple'-style part that you memorise.

Btw, have you looked into Yubikeys? They are better than password storage, because they can store your private keys and do signing with them. The key never leaves the device. (They can also store passwords, I think.)

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by eru »

OptionOfT wrote: post #278
eru wrote: post #182

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Why would you want to memorise a password? That's what password managers or even paper is for. (Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds like: It's impossible to hack paper from the internet. And, if someone has physical access to your stuff, they could install a keylogger anyway.)

For secret answers like this I have Bitwarden generate a set of words that I put in. The words are actual English words, so the 'random gibberish' moniker wouldn't be correct. But at least the answer doesn't match the question. I've also learned to store the question, as some websites make you select the question before providing the answer. And my answers don't allude to what the original question was.

> I've also learned to store the question, as some websites make you select the question before providing the answer. And my answers don't allude to what the original question was.

I usually pick the first or default question. But yeah, that order might change.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by eru »

juped wrote: post #276
eru wrote: post #182

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Why would you want to memorise a password? That's what password managers or even paper is for. (Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds like: It's impossible to hack paper from the internet. And, if someone has physical access to your stuff, they could install a keylogger anyway.)

got to have a password manager password, and a login password

Write that down on a piece of paper.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by eru »

mafuy wrote: post #178
johnisgood wrote: post #144

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sighs . Seriously? Good to know though, if true.

German here. Absolutely true, and has been for many years now. Some examples: - grade D, poor performance: "We were satisfied with his performance" - grade C, meh: "We were entirely satisfied with his performance" - true grade A+: "We were always satisfied to the utmost degree with his performance" plus highly positive and extensive in the rest of the reference letter. - "was sociable": alcoholic - "was always strivi…

> - "was very empathic": had sex with customer

This would be very funny to see on an Arbeitszeugnis for a prostitute. Remember prostitution is legal in Germany.

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by fragmede »

balder1991 wrote: post #81
fragmede wrote: post #65

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Oh I figured it was gonna be this one: https://cam-xxx.live/rootkit-injector/evil-controller/payloa...

Is this gonna work on my 2008 Symbian’s browser?

it will if you're logged in!

Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?

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Post by Terr_ »

eru wrote: post #315
Terr_ wrote: post #295

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> Why would you want to memorise a password? You'll definitely want to memorize the password to the backup service that has the last copy of your password vault after a disaster. :P > Writing your passwords down on paper is actually less crazy than it sounds I agree that physical security can be incredibly useful against a lot of modern threats... but we can do better. I wish there was a dedicated password-keeper dev…

> You'll definitely want to memorize the password to the backup service that has the last copy of your password vault after a disaster. :P Why? Write it down. Perhaps leave multiple paper copies around with some trusted people, like your lawyer and a safe deposit box at your bank. Your proposed device seems a bit complicated. You can get pretty far with a piece of paper and this protocol: Construct your password from…

> Why? Write it down. Perhaps leave multiple paper copies around with some trusted people, like your lawyer and a safe deposit box at your bank.

Those people would then effectively have access to your nearly-current desktop/laptop data from anywhere, especially since they would have to know who you are which greatly simplifies guessing your username/email.

> You can get pretty far with a piece of paper

Password Papers (A) never get backed-up and (B) I've already tried getting relatives using them to adopt exactly such a fixed+variable combo scheme.

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