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Thread #173120   Message #4198044
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
26-Feb-24 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Security breach?
Subject: RE: Tech: Security breach?
Warning from history: I remember reading, many years ago, of one chap who had a super-unbreakable password which he was requested and required to use for sensitive logins (possibly NSA-sensitive). One day, he tried his magic password on a password-strength program, which said: "Bingo: that password is well-known." Turns out he'd used his super-unbreakable password on a talker, and that the talker's owner, who also happened to write the password test program, had tipped the talker's password file (kept in plain text) into the tester's list of well-known passwords.