CNBC's secure password tutorial sent your password in the clear to 30 advertisers

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i do have to say that this is just another classic example of how the human link is the weakest link in any security chain.

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Sadly, those who needed the lesson most are probably the least likely to find out about it.

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hunter2

Edit: it didn’t work! I think it only works on slashdot.

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You know it’s a good class when the teacher learns as well as the students.

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It did work!

I’ll try mine:

!D0naldTrump4Pr3zPlz!

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I cried a little as I saved this comic. Should get some good use from me down the road.

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I guess ‘AngryPelican’ might be a reasonable password…

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I recently told a DBA to change a database query to add:
VendorCode in (‘123’, ‘INSERT OTHER VENDOR CODE HERE’)

When it didn’t work, I remoted in to find that exact phrase.

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Well, it was.

DAMMIT.

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Next time, set it to ToChangeMyOwnPasswordIWill<DescribeMethodHere>WhichIsTotallyLessAnnoyingThanTypingThisForTheNextSixMonths :laughing:

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I have had that exact same experience. More than once.

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Wow the worst I did was set a password to ‘bonehead’ when I got asked if I could reset a password for a bonehead user who forgot what it was… They should not give me such easy openings.

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If the asterisks don’t show up I hear you can just use White Out on your screen to cover up the password. (Ask codinghorror for the bbcode for White Out if you don’t have any at home… :innocent: )

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adds ‘eat/a/bag/of/dicks’ to list of passwords to check first

What was that about 180 billion years?

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