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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    He changed all his passwords to FBIMoron. And no one would have guessed, til now.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    Treasury secretary Geithner almost lost his appointment because couldn't do his taxes. FBI chief almost falls for Internet fraud. It's like mom said: Do as I say, not as I do.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/08/09

    In reply to FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
    It's Willie Sutton all over again. Why are the scammers all on the Internet? Because that's where the money is!
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    Image of celery celery
    10/08/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    So 654321 is okay? Phew.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    I've been told I'm quite vulnerable. I use that tree sort in my neighbor's yard when I was growing up and add in there some numbers for letters and anybody who knows all that will be able to hack into one of my accounts - and it'd be like breaking and entering into a project in Detroit.
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    Image of Dictator for Life Dictator for Life
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    I've always wondered how people who use a different password on every site remember them. I have trouble remembering which ones I've had to add a number too, and which ones I've had to capitalize. Which is all a part of the reason I'm behind on my student loan payments. Seriously, I cannot remember which variation of my password Sallie Mae needed.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    Phew, it's a good thing my password is onetwothreefourfivesix
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    Image of mexiback mexiback
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    You would think that using 123456 is too obvious and stupid so maybe you're the only smartass who would actually use.

    You and millions of others.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    10/07/09

    @mexiback: Like the Purloined Letter.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    My password is always HamNoFuxHrdr
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/07/09

    @BookishLookish: And I would have I guessed "ILuvPareenis."
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/07/09

    @BadUncle: Shhh, that's spammy's!
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    "first thing any decent hacker will try"

    UGH.

    It's not "hacking" when you simply type in the log in information. Guessing/knowing a password is not a "hack."
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/07/09

    @Voyou_Charmant: Yes it is, it's just not a code hack. The reason the term code hack exists is, there are other kinds.
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    Image of LittleLolly LittleLolly
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    Bosco.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    Charles Bukowski quotes make for the best passwords. No way any form of artificial intelligence can figure out how to pair words like that.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    10/07/09

    @snugbug: The real deal was Burroughs, who utilized the cut-and-paste method of inserting random lines from different texts in no particular order. It read just like an explosion in a printshop, but at least it helped him off his horse.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/07/09

    @Tremonius: There used to be a great site feature called the Cutup Machine that would randomly splice bits of The Naked Lunch into whatever text you gave it. Great for busting through writer's block. Sadly, it's vanished now.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    10/08/09

    @raincoaster: In school, I had this friend who copied out pages and pages from The Subterraneans for an essay in Eng Lit. He was never caught. Cultural Relativism.
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    Image of blix blix
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    No more passwords for me. I can't afford another cat.
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    Image of Lord Humungus Lord Humungus
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    That's the kind of password an idiot would put on his luggage.

    -Lord Helmet
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    10/07/09

    @Lord Humungus: King Roland:

    That's the code to my luggage!
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    10/07/09

    In reply to Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
    The best password is still, and always will be, "password."
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/07/09

    @MyNameIsChris: ..This reminds me of a wonderful plot point in Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum." The protagonist is trying to get into the computer of his best friend (who has mysteriously gone missing).

    The log-on pop-up window keeps demanding, "Do you have the password?" The guy spends 24 hours trying out all sorts of literal and numeric combinations that would have made sense for his friend.. None work. At long last, when the "Do you have the password?" window pops up after his millionth try, he spitefully types, in frustration, "NO."

    ..Aaaand bingo! That turns out to be the correct password.
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    Edited by snugbug at 10/07/09 1:45 PM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/07/09

    @MyNameIsChris: followed by "Pencil", re: War Games when Matthew Broderick haxxes into his school's computer to change Ally Sheedy's grades..
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    10/07/09

    @snugbug: Never thought I'd live to see the day when somebody other then me would mention "Foucault's Pendulum" in the course of a conversation. Kudos, snugbug, kudos. Now, if you excuse me I have to go hide in a museum and wait for something to happen.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/07/09

    @hilikusopus: We're a nerd fraternity (sorority?) of two.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    10/07/09

    @snugbug: Nerdernity? BTW, Dan Brown totally ripped off that novel, and watered it down so that it contained none of Eco's philology and bookishness.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    10/07/09

    @hilikusopus: That book got me through jury duty long ago.
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    Image of paragrab paragrab
    10/07/09

    @hilikusopus: This is the third time i have randomly come across a rave for this book since I spied it on it's perch atop my roommate's toilet a month ago. I'm convinced. Looks like I'll have to fight his slow-reading ass for it now.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/07/09

    @paragrab: It's a dense, thick literary experience that demands your full attention. It starts out slow, but gallops at a breakneck pace after the first five chapters. If you stick with it, you'll grow to adore it. It's wonderfully educational, too. The author is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Europe's oldest.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    10/07/09

    @snugbug: Not only is Umberto Eco an author and a professor, he is also the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question that I pulled in 2002 regarding a certain renowned Italian philosopher, so there's that.
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    snugbug promoted this comment Edited by hilikusopus at 10/07/09 4:30 PM hilikusopus was starred hilikusopus was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    10/07/09

    @snugbug: There's also the realtime solution of just hitting return to bypass, and if the unit wasn't password-protected, it works. And isn't it cute how old processes hang on after they're gone, like a memorial? That return is a typewriter keystroke. And nobody "dials" a number no more.
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