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

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Post by cantrevealname »

meruru wrote: post #29

Let this thread be a reminder for everyone to use a password manager.

I'm willing to bet that a major upcoming security disaster is a compromised password manager that leaks out tens of millions of accounts and passwords in nicely structured XML that's perfect for automated attacks and frauds.

Yes, I use a password manager too, but an ancient one that has no Internet connection, no syncing, and no cloud storage.

The only "modern" password manager I've been able to find that works completely offline and is open source is KeePass -- so long as you don't install any of its plugins that open it up to Internet access.

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

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Post by mises »

qlk1123 wrote: post #67
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"

Tried "e04su3su;6", and there are 71 ones! This is a rude phrase that probably most Taiwanese understand.

Care to enlighten those of us who are not?

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

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Post by atm0sphere »

shawnz wrote: post #11
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…

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

Wow. I remember this key too. It's amazing how far we've come from those days..just think, each open chrome tab takes up as much memory as your entire machine had back then.

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

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Post by thratchnee »

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…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

Wikipedia says it was created under the Beiyang Government so no. Also bopomofo is an alphabet (seperate characters for consonants and vowels) where as katakana/hiragana are syllabaries

However all three systems are derived from regular Chinese script. Hiragana is derived from cursive Chinese script, Katakana from radicals used as shorthand for certain characters, and Bopomofo from archaic forms of modern characters.

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

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Post by alainchabat »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #57
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"

If you're interested in learning Chinese, and want to see the bopomofo/pinyin/literal/parallel translations, please check out Pingtype! I wrote it to help me study. Click Advanced > ㄅㄆㄇㄈ if you want the Zhuyin. https://pingtype.github.io

Was lurking profiles of the Taiwanese crowd on HN. How is it to work as a Software engineer in Kaoshuing?

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

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Post by AlexITC »

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…

I remember to have memorized a couple of Windows serials, the reason that the Windows serial was used as a password by thousands of users might be related that some people didn't understood that they needed a new password and just typed the serial thinking that was the required one, or to non-English speakers, they could have misunderstood what was required.

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

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Post by swang »

mises wrote: post #72
qlk1123 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried "e04su3su;6", and there are 71 ones! This is a rude phrase that probably most Taiwanese understand.

Care to enlighten those of us who are not?

幹你娘. Motherfucker, (lit. "fuck your mom")

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

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Post by HumanDrivenDev »

tjpnz wrote: post #70
ilamont wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It does have some resemblance to katakana. The first character at least looks very similar to メ.

It comes from China, was developed in the republican era. It's based on a shorthand modification of seal script - though Japan was very influential on the elite of China at that time so it's possible Katakana played some role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

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

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Post by taneq »

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…

You're one in 7.5 million!

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

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Post by userbinator »

shawnz wrote: post #11
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…

Is your password "fckgw rhqq2"?

I was going to guess W7XTC 2YWFB... another semi-well-known key from a slightly earlier era.
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