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I once used a password which our IT department gave me and it was !'a;@,oq and at least for me it looked random enough. I had it as a root password on a server
by jeena 8y ago
I once used a password which our IT department gave me and it was !'a;@,oq and at least for me it looked random enough. I had it as a root password on a server and I enabled password login for about 2 minutes because I wanted to resize some virtual hard drive or something and couldn't be logged in as a normal user and then switching with su to root because then the normal user would have open files on the file system and I wouldn't be able to unmount or something.
Within those 2 minutes some chinese hacker scripts took over the server and started DDosing some chinese IP adresses. We had to shut it down and blast it and set it up from scratch again.
I later found out that this password was everything but random. It was difficult for me to see because I've been using Dvorak for a couple of years now and didn't see the pattern that it was just the first two rows of the characters on a qwerty keyboard. So actually it was !qaz@wsx (I just put the Dvorak version on top of the comment to give you the same unknown feeling for the password which I had back then.)
I've never reused any passwords since then and always create new ones with my password manager.
- JdeBP 8y agocolumns, not rows.
- bovermyer 8y agoI appreciate that you thought about your reader enough to alter the password initially for narrative strength. That's really clever.
- 0xfaded 8y agoI also use dvorak, saw the pattern and was expecting the punchline of your post to be "the sysadmin used dvorak so I didn't recognize the pattern".
- highmastdon 8y agoL idk c;ukman d; L hag jklfhks ajo lgka... I use colemak so I had neither any idea...
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- perfmode 8y ago> So actually it was !qaz@wsx (I just put the Dvorak version on top of the comment to give you the same unknown feeling for the password which I had back then.) Great narrative trick. Bravo, Keyzer Soze.