Others to avoid - THX1138, NCC1701, R2D2C3PO, sesame, obafgkmrns, mtwtfss...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
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Heh, obafgkmrns? That brings up memories from waaay back; much more fun to see it here than any of the top 20. Not that it is any better as a password, of course...
ReplyDeleteYea, we'd always run new passwords by John the Ripper first...
ReplyDeleteDon't tape the password to your monitor, either. Or inside any desk drawer. Or under anything on your desk.
ReplyDeleteAs a PC tech, it usually took me about 30 seconds to find passwords taped somewhere. And yes, I've seen them taped to the top of laptop monitors. In Starbucks. (An airport Starbucks, actually.)
obafgjmrns ? mtwtfss ?
ReplyDeletesurprised thx1138 is there. I didnt expect many people to know about his first movie.
but the last two are greek to me.
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Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie
ReplyDeleteSee Stellar Classifications.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday...
BBROYGBVGW - first the mnemonic, and then what it references, please (^v^)
ReplyDeletesesame cracks me up! That's so clever!
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to passwords, I tend to use the movie codes of obscure videos I've watched on YouTube. Not only are passwords derived in this fashion suitably hard to guess (at least, I imagine they would be), but they're also easy to "hide" in an apparently innocuous list of URLs of "cool videos I've seen" or whatever.
ReplyDeleteBBROYGBVGW - guh, someone else gets to explain that one. I shall resist, so to speak. I can't believe people don't know NCC1701. They must turn in their Nerd Cards forthwith!
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