These people revealed their passwords a little too freely

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/21/these-people-revealed-their-pa.html

Amazing, true, but I wonder how many said “GotoHell123”.

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I’d like to photograph Jerry.

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Back in the early 90s, I went to a seminar on security. The guy said social engineering was the #1 way to hack a system. It’s still true, huh?

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I’d like to believe that the people who shared, were lying and those weren’t their actual passwords. But I’m not confident that is true.

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Just ask Kevin Mitnick

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It’ll always be true. The vast majority of ‘hacking’ isn’t about some guy tapping away at a keyboard while staring at a command prompt. Its about either getting someone to tell you the info you want, or engineering actual physical access to the system.

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I put my cyberbrain into “autistic mode” before watching videos like this.

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Great, now i need to change my password again! Thanks buddy

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I’ll just leave these random password generator sites here…

http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskgen/

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

I like to combine and remix the results a bit on the off chance either site caches the generated outputs.

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