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This bothers me because I prefer to use slightly embarrassing passphrases. I do that because it creates a secondary incentive not to disclose them.
by lolc 7y ago
This bothers me because I prefer to use slightly embarrassing passphrases. I do that because it creates a secondary incentive not to disclose them.
- elisto 7y agoDoes that mean that it is embarrassing and can be tied to you or that it is just embarrassing to say? If the first, then wouldn't you risk being pwned and having that used against you?
- xnyan 7y agoI’m guessing the latter. Not saying my password is 8o0b7fOr2060+9
- mjlee 7y agoI worked with someone who had to share a password to solve a major outage. (Yes, I know...) It was a rude comment about a colleague.
- lolc 7y agoWant better password hygiene in the workplace? Encourage rude passwords!
- lolc 7y agoOh no not that embarrassing. I don't record private secrets into my passwords. They're more like "I never told Cindy I loved her." with Cindy being a now-dead cat. My embarrassment threshold is low :-)
- mrtcve 7y agoI would avoid doing that, invariably they end up in dumps with your name and email next to them. One of the more interesting things about reused "unique" passwords is they can serve as a fingerprint to link accounts you may not otherwise be able to attribute to the same account/individual.
- lolc 7y agoYou missed the "slightly" part of the embarrassing. You can find other more embarrassing things I wrote when you search for my email-address. Re-use of slightly embarrassing passwords is not worse than re-use of any other unique password. Also https://www.xkcd.com/137/ https://www.xkcd.com/137/
- fluidcruft 7y agoIt's probably actually easier to learn vulgar passwords. Well vulgar anything really, it's a memorization trick we were taught in school to find a way to relate boring things to sex. Probably anything that has strong emotional valence works.
- oneeyedpigeon 7y agoYup, Moonwalking with Einstein explains this phenomenon well. I know I'll never forget 'Sex On Hard Concrete Always Hurts The Orgasmic Areas', which my Maths teacher passed on ~30 years ago.
- anon73044 7y agowe always preferred the "Some Old Hippy Caught At Home Tripping On Acid" I won't repeat the one we were told to remember Resistor color codes.
- RandallBrown 7y agoIn college my roommate and I made our wifi password something like a fart joke. Perfectly fine to tell to our close friends, but kinda embarrassing. One day, at the end of the semester, our female neighbor knocked on our door and asked if she could use our wifi since she was moving out the next day and had already canceled her Internet. I would have been happy to share with her, but I couldn't bring myself to tell her the password. Instead I just said my roommate was "really weird about sharing our wifi" and apologized. I don't think that incident ever actually made me change the password though.
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