You may still need the police, the FBI and the city engineers to take out a power grid to get past that last airlock, though.
Posted on 09/13/2015 9:05:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
When data from the massive Ashley Madison hack first leaked online, one tiny bright spot was that researchers said the company appeared to use a strong algorithm to encrypt users passwords. But now one group says it already decoded more than 11 million passwords because programming errors in how that encryption was applied left the information less secure than originally thought.
And the passwords unearthed by the decoding hobbyists, known as CynoSure Prime, so far suggest that many who were seeking thrills on the infidelity-focused site had poor digital hygiene.
The top password uncovered so far: 123456, according to Ars Technica. The other passwords that made the top five aren't much better: 12345, password, DEFAULT, and 123456789.
(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...
Old saying from my military days; if its stupid and it works it ain’t stupid.
Ha! Must have been the out-of-the-box password when the missile was delivered. No one bothered to read the owners manual that came with the missile; the one where in step 5 it tells you to change the default password.
You may still need the police, the FBI and the city engineers to take out a power grid to get past that last airlock, though.
laziness can be a very bad habit
Keyboard location combinations are great. You can choose sections of columns and rows that contain letters, numbers and special characters that you can’t remember but can replicate on the keyboard.
For instance QzPm0! includes the four corners of the alpha keypad and a number from a corner and a special character from a corner. The letters on the top are upper case and the letters on the bottom are lower case. It’s a very secure password but easy to remember.
That’s what I do, I have a pattern, so even if I forget I simply have to go to the following version of the pattern until I finally find it.
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