The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

Post by appsonify » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 2:49 AM UTC

Post by nyolfen » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 2:50 AM UTC

shubhamjain wrote: post #8

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…

Post by rb808 » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 2:51 AM UTC

shubhamjain wrote: post #14

shawnz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 2:53 AM UTC

cyberferret wrote: post #55

swang wrote: post #34

This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard. Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you: ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ In Pinyin that is wo3 de mi4ma3 Or in English "my password"

I see this same explanation on the Twitter thread, which is great. However, I am concerned at how the OP got the string in the first place, that he compared to HaveIBeenPwned? Is he storing his user's passwords in plain text in his back end database, and decided to run them all against the service?? That in and of itself is a security red flag.

Post by tjpnz » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 2:58 AM UTC

ilamont wrote: post #49

swang wrote: post #34

This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard. Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you: ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ In Pinyin that is wo3 de mi4ma3 Or in English "my password"

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…