• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

I know what your password is and you are an idiot

rjh01

Gentleman of leisure
rjh01
Joined
May 6, 2005
Messages
29,929
Location
Flying around in the sky
Ashley Madison's users passwords have been revealed. Or at least the 100 most popular passwords used. I have had a look at the list and if you use any of these passwords then you are a total idiot and you might as well not have a password. The list is in the link below. You can also find it in several other news sites.

Any person who wants to break into your account (any account) only has to use the passwords on the list and if your password is in the list then your account has been hacked with minimum of effort and skill required. Best if they can just keep on trying, such as the ISF. I mean put in 5 wrong passwords here and they only have to wait 15 minutes before they can try again. Then if they succeed the next step is to find out what other accounts you have and use the same passwords. Example being your bank accounts. If they get into those wave good bye to all your money.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...r-researchers-crack-them-20150915-gjmstg.html

Are you an idiot? If so please confess on this thread and change your password. Do not reveal which passwords you use. Similar lists have been published before with previous hacks and some of the same passwords are on both lists.

NSFW warning. Some of the passwords in the list would attract a rule 10 violation if published as is on this forum.

Please also comment on basic computer security issues here, especially ones which we should all know about.
 
Last edited:
I use one of those for one of my many work logins where I don't give a rip who sees what is there. I hope this means that I am not a complete idiot.
 
I'd like to be at the divorce trial where the guy has to admit his password was "Batman."
 
One of mine was fairly close to one on the list but it is the one I use for the least secure accounts, like logins for discussion boards. Oooops...
 
alfaniner said:
One of mine was fairly close to one on the list but it is the one I use for the least secure accounts, like logins for discussion boards. Oooops...
Click to expand...

This is bad enough. Someone hacks into your account here, then they smash every rule in the book. Admins have a fit and ban you on the spot. Hope that is OK with you?

This is something like what your soon to be ex might do if they suspect that you were not 100% faithful to your marriage vows. Then spread the word to all your friends and relatives that it was you who did this (it was your account) and this is the reason they will divorce you.


Still think discussion boards need not be secure?
 
fishbob said:
I use one of those for one of my many work logins where I don't give a rip who sees what is there. I hope this means that I am not a complete idiot.
Click to expand...

I hope your job is not important to you. Does that login give you access to email? If so your hacker could send an email to everyone saying what you actually think of them.
 
My password is not in the list, not even remotely. This does not mean I am not an idiot but in this case I pass.
 
rjh01 said:
I hope your job is not important to you. Does that login give you access to email? If so your hacker could send an email to everyone saying what you actually think of them.
Click to expand...

I hope you stick to reading fantasy literature ;)

---

btw you dont know my password and I am idiot so .. gg
 
I do use simple passwords at certain sites, too.

Never use the same password for different purposes, though (that's the reason why I chose simple passwords for certain less important sites, so that they're easy to remember). Point is, hacking one of my accounts won't give people access to other accounts. Not even a hint what the password of other accounts might be.
 
bluesjnr said:
My password is not in the list, not even remotely. This does not mean I am not an idiot but in this case I pass.
Click to expand...

Mine wasn't either, so I changed it to match. This way, people will think I'm an idiot and I can blindside them with my perspicacity.
 
rjh01 said:
This is bad enough. Someone hacks into your account here, then they smash every rule in the book. Admins have a fit and ban you on the spot. Hope that is OK with you?

This is something like what your soon to be ex might do if they suspect that you were not 100% faithful to your marriage vows. Then spread the word to all your friends and relatives that it was you who did this (it was your account) and this is the reason they will divorce you.


Still think discussion boards need not be secure?
Click to expand...

Yes. your post is a bit incoherent but the way I interpret it is that if I have an easily hackable password for ISF, then a disgruntled lover could log in, get me banned from ISF then tell all my friends that I said rude things on an internet forum.

I think I could live with that. I'd be more perturbed about having had a relationship with someone who thought that was suitably evil revenge for a break up.
 
I really hated the insistence of our work logon to change our passwords every 90 days. It required a super-strong password, and if it was too similar to any of your previous 12 passwords it wouldn't allow it.

Thereby ensuring that every single person had their current password written down somewhere.
 
alfaniner said:
I really hated the insistence of our work logon to change our passwords every 90 days. It required a super-strong password, and if it was too similar to any of your previous 12 passwords it wouldn't allow it.

Thereby ensuring that every single person had their current password written down somewhere.
Click to expand...

Along the same lines: I hate it when web sites like forums (fora?), i.e. sites NOT requiring very high security, require extensive rules to make supposedly* high security password (e.g. lower- and upper-case letters, at least one number and one non-alphanumeric symbol) AND NOT TELL ME ABOUT IT UNTIL I DO IT WRONG! It happens to me always on sites I do not visit frequently. I seldom remember the password as it is, and I surely don't remember the specific rules. If they tell me the rules (so I don't have to remember), I can retrace my password generation (that is, hack myself ;) ). But if they don't, I make numerous mistakes until they tell me the frickin' rules! Which they only do when I try to generate a new password! Which I cannot do because I cannot authenticate myself with my original not remembered password! Because I forgot the stupid uppercase part (or whatever)! Aargh! (Then I have to use the alternate authentication. Say, the two personal questions. Which are nothing but passwords without the set rules, thereby used by people with the standard low security passwords that the rules want to prevent in the first place!)

One site blocked me because of too many wrong attempts.

Which was a simple hobby related forum!

*The sad part is that I know how to make high security AND easy to remember passwords, but which do not fit the fixed rules. I'm sure every one here knows, too. And sometimes this procedure cannot be followed because the frickin' site allows only limited password length. And the limited length I encounter most frequently on sites that DO require fairly high security, like shopping and banking sites.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom