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IIRC all the 'rules' about secure passwords were basically made up by one guy in five minutes when he was put on the spot and he's spent years since telling everyone to stop because they're doing everything wrong and taught everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember and easy for computers to guess.
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I use phrases from video games with nonsense words in them and that works pretty well
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Aug 14, 2020 06:51
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One of my coworkers uses a rant about password complexity requirements.
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Heath posted:I use phrases from video games with nonsense words in them and that works pretty well l337 famous quotes are my go to when I'm not using a password manager. Making password-store give me a long password is way easier than remembering poo poo though so it's not common for me to use a password I need to remember.
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Heath posted:I use phrases from video games with nonsense words in them and that works pretty well luigixbowser=otpuwu
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A shitton of goons got hacked. Not skillfully, just half of everyone was apparently using passwords like 123456 and abcdefg. Lowtax got frustrated and made the password requirements obnoxious. Several years ago a significant number of Craigslist accounts had their passwords identical to their username. It was trivial to hijack accounts there for a while.
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 ), but I'm confident that mine is secure now.haha disregard that I suck dicks SneezeOfTheDecade fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 08:34
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:I definitely remember an incident where I had to change my password, but I'm confident that mine is secure now. hunter2 isn't actually that secure sorry.
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Aug 14, 2020 08:36
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:
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Aug 14, 2020 09:58
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When I first regged (05/06?) you weren't allowed to use a free email account. I lost my old account because it was linked to my isp address from my old flat and I forgot my password.
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Aug 14, 2020 10:10
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I registered with superfreakzilla@hotmail.
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Inceltown posted:******* isn't actually that secure sorry. I don't see what the problem is.
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Aug 14, 2020 11:10
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Kazinsal posted:One of my coworkers uses a rant about password complexity requirements. Our IT guy has them be something like 14 characters, capital, lowercase,number, and a special character. Oh and it changes every 3 months but "at least we're not using 2FA right?" There are multiple people in the office with passwords insulting the guy
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Rando posted:I registered with superfreakzilla@hotmail. yeah the first time i registered was with the hotmail account i got in like 1997
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Kazinsal posted:One of my coworkers uses a rant about password complexity requirements. I like this person. I had a set of passwords that was created on the like 20th password change at work and apparently I had used all the ones I kept trying (all the different apps we used had password changes at different intervals, so I really had no clue what was what at that point). It was a very long, expression of my feelings in the moment. With a few alterations of course.
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Aug 14, 2020 15:01
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I actually never remember my SA password. If I get logged out I have to reset it every time.
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Aug 14, 2020 16:41
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I have like at least 3 old accounts because I lost the password and couldn't ever reset it. I thought that was purposeful to suck more money out of unorganized goons
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:This might not be a “saga,” and it may have already been posted here, but whatever. It’s good content. Man that thread ended too soon, I wanted more banana facts Len posted:Our IT guy has them be something like 14 characters, capital, lowercase,number, and a special character. Oh and it changes every 3 months but "at least we're not using 2FA right?" Tangentially related, my old job had an ordinary card reader at the doors, like the kind where you just hold your wallet near it and it instantly unlocks. Then they decided to "upgrade" to an app that unlocked the door via bluetooth on your phone, but the app was super buggy and a lot of the times my phone would connect and the thing would beep but not open, and I'd be standing there in the rain shaking my phone at the panel cursing for 30 seconds before I could finally get in. And if you ran to your car and left your phone on your desk, you were hosed. HR had a box of old-fashioned cards that still worked, but they weren't allowed to give them out because the bosses loved pretending like we were a trendy tech startup (see also: the slack-powered office-wide music playlist that only played the same 3 hours worth of music on repeat and ignored requests to remove old songs). Friend fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 17:43
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My wife doesn't use SA anymore at least partially because of the password requirements
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I've always come up with a logical schema for my passwords that follow a similar but obscure pattern and I've never had issues remembering 16 char passwords.
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purple death ray posted:My wife doesn't use SA anymore at least partially because of the password requirements Get her to use a password manager. If I didn’t have one I’d never be able to login, my SA password is so absurdly long I have no idea what it is. pentyne posted:People posting in the UK threads have received visits from their police forces over protest related chat, so it's not just the US monitoring this site. Got any links about that? 
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Snowy posted:Get her to use a password manager. If I didn’t have one I’d never be able to login, my SA password is so absurdly long I have no idea what it is. Nah she doesn't miss it lol
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purple death ray posted:Nah she doesn't miss it lol But she is missed 
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purple death ray posted:Nah she doesn't miss it lol yeah well we don't miss her either!!
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that bitch!
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Snowy posted:
Before the 2012 Olympics a goon in the ukmt in d&d was talking about protesting or messing with the torch bearers. I can't remember the exact details. Some one else said he discussed it on facebook as well so it could have been that although I'm sure SA is monitored by multiple agencies.
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Jippa posted:Before the 2012 Olympics a goon in the ukmt in d&d was talking about protesting or messing with the torch bearers. I can't remember the exact details. Some one else said he discussed it on facebook as well so it could have been that although I'm sure SA is monitored by multiple agencies.  Jeffrey of YOSPOS is actually the FBI monitor assigned to SA.
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Blue Moonlight posted:
SA is a FBI honeypot and Aatrek was their fall guy.
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Aug 14, 2020 23:39
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turns out CSPAM is all cops
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:turns out CSPAM is all cops I, too, have read The Man Who Was Thursday
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I have a strange co-dependency with someone I don’t know. When I first glimpsed at Something Awful at 15 in 2002 Lowtax was a 25 year old ‘it boy’ and as far I was concerned the funniest and most daring dude on the internet, and I guess I always felt this whole network would remain constant and appeal to the.sensibilities of who I was back then. I wonder sometimes if it’s the final vestige of my childhood. So yeah I’d like to see a less harrowing ending to all this.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There was a more recent incident that required everyone change their passwords, but I'll be damned if I remember any more details. The one I remember is the don't gently caress with DEBT saga.
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SubponticatePoster posted:The one I remember is the don't gently caress with DEBT saga. Kithyen posted:Basically the person who stole the accounts would post a thread under that account name which when opened would create a giant neverending string of new windows (Tubgirl pics/goatse cliched crap like that) along with a sound file that repeated "HEY! I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!" or something equally stupid. Lowtax posted:No, that's not true. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:The one I remember is the don't gently caress with DEBT saga. I'm not talking 15 years ago.
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Keith Atherton posted:So much of the comedy I’ve enjoyed on this site was not meant to be comedy so much better and more accurate than "the internet makes you stupid"
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Hub Cat posted:
flash not a security problem, just an annoyance
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Aug 15, 2020 06:27
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Just like after Stalin's death, we now have to assess which of the executed goons/mods to rehabilitate
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I would unironically love a The Death of Kyanka film. He won’t actually be dead. Just compress the timeline a little, have Jeffrey go confront him about the allegations irl, and open the film with hI’m finding Taxman passed out on the couch at SA HQ.
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While Stalin, obviously, is responsible for much more death and suffering than Lowtax, who knows what sort of atrocities the latter would have committed if he hadn't spent 95% of the past fifteen years passed out on his couch
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