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From what I heard, the original press conference was a doozy: Reporter: Wasn't the password something insecure like a four-digit number? Officer: No, it's a 1
by yongjik 4y ago
From what I heard, the original press conference was a doozy:
Reporter: Wasn't the password something insecure like a four-digit number?
Officer: No, it's a 13-letter alphanumeric password.
Reporter: But if it was totally random wasn't it hard to use?
Officer: It's a meaningful English word, followed by a meaningful four-digit number, so it's quite easy to memorize.
Reporter: By an English word, you mean something like _password_?
Officer: It's not a simple word. It's a word and a number that are related to the City of Amagasaki.
Reporter: Do you use a capital letter?
Officer: It's grammatically correct, as only the first letter is capital.
For god's sake, if you just lost a USB stick with the whole city's personal data, don't spell out how you chose your password!!!
- notRobot 4y agoThis seems like it's out of My Family And Other Animals - 2022 edition.
- pacarvalho 4y agoAt least there was a password lol
- TwistedWave 4y agoAmagasaki2022
- TrainedMonkey 4y ago"Amagasaki2022" is a 13-letter alphanumeric password with meaningful word and four-digit number.
- layer8 4y agoIt’s not a meaningful English word though.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoBut… isn’t Amagasaki literally the English transliteration of 尼崎市? Isn’t a name a word?
- layer8 4y agoIt’s a romanization, not specifically an English one. Romanizations, or transliterations in general, don’t translate from one language into another, but from one writing system into another. You’d have more of a point if the word was substantially changed for English, for example like the English Munich is quite different from the original German München.
- throwaway23234 4y agoCity officials have been getting trained hard in not lying to the public so much that they probably felt obligated to answer these questions.
- sedatk 4y agoRefusing to answer isn't lying though.
- tyingq 4y agoIt was probably something like legacy/default zipfile utility encryption anyway.
- upupandup 4y agoi think this sort of demonstrates just how far behind and backwards Japan is. It's like the country is stuck in late 90s. In contrast, Korea seemed like it was on a different timeline with the massive digitization and broadband internet movement in the early 2000s. With a dwindling population, Korea seems more flexible/apt at dealing with the future. There is also a much larger awareness/movement to multiculturalism whereas Japan seems unwilling to deal with the looming crisis.
- celdon25 4y agoStill feels more intelligent then the average doctor visit these days in the US. Painting a country with the same brush overlooks the fact that some professions aren’t sent the best and brightest, depending on country.
- new299 4y ago> i think this sort of demonstrates just how far behind and backwards Japan is. It's like the country is stuck in late 90s. I've lived in Japan for the last 10 years, in no way does it seem "stuck in late 90s". And this single incident in no way demonstrates this. For some reason it's culturally acceptable to make these kinds of comments about Japan in English language forums. But I don't really understand why... Japan is no doubt very different from other countries in various respects. But it doesn't seem helpful to say essentially "we are 30 years ahead of Japan". You could if you wanted say "wow the US/UK are stuck in the 1990s" because copper broadband is still common in the US/UK. In Japan you often have 4G fiber to the home in rural locations, and 10G connections available in some locations... it's not a super helpful comment though, because countries are complex and you can't point to single issues and make general statements about the countries stage of development.
- mutt2016 4y agoAlso Japan is the world leader in fax technology. Fax. Many fax companies are only viable because of the Japanese market.
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- thingification 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki "The city was founded on April 1, 1916." Amagasaki1916
- jonny_eh 4y agoI just checked, it worked!
- imachine1980_ 4y agoJoke???
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoI wouldn’t bother guessing the password, I’d scrape the Wikipedia page for all 9 character words, then run hashcat with a simple 4 digit mutator rule. It would take longer to remember how to use hashcat than to iterate through all possible combinations on my low end laptop GPU.
- pyuser583 4y agoAnd it was a top secret the US cracked their codes!?!