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Can someone, please PM me the password for anonymous? I need to post in S.S. 12 Tnxs BB

Sharp as a fucking marble, ain't I?

Kinda blew your cover there, buster.

Wow, now I got a laugh out of this thread. Buster, you are A O.K. in my book. :)

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Originally Posted by busterb (Post 844761)

Sharp as a fucking marble, ain't I?

Or a sack of wet mice, take your pick. It doesn't matter, it's Christmas and we're all a little buzzed. At least I am.

Hey Buster, sorry i was away from my PC for a while. I just PMed you, but I figure you got what you want. :lol:

Tnxs Boy did do that right or what?/ :smack:

Don't feel too bad Buster. I bought my gift through Amazon and had it delivered direct since I wasn't sure there was time for it to come to me and then get sent out again, figuring that by clicking yes on the 'is this a gift' box that it would not have my name on it. I got a thank you PM from the recipient.:smack:

Rich, they'll say who it's from but not the price since it's a gift.

[Allen]The password is....[Ludden]

NY Times
By NICK BILTON
11/12/13

Adobe Breach Inadvertently Tied to Other Accounts

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This week, Ammon Bartram, a software engineer and co-founder of SocialCam,
was talking to a friend about a recent security breach at Adobe in which hackers
were able to gain access to tens of millions of encrypted passwords and email addresses.
The friend, Mr. Bartram said, did not think anyone would be able
to find out his pass code from the stolen data.
”I’ll bet you $10 you can’t figure it out,” the friend said confidently.

Mr. Bartram went to a file-sharing website, downloaded a nearly 9-gigabyte file
the Adobe hackers had posted online that is said to contain 150 million emails
and encrypted passwords for Adobe user accounts, and began searching.
Soon after, Mr. Bartram said in a phone interview, he informed his friend:

“Your password is ‘dinosaur.’”

While Adobe “hashed” its passwords
— which involves mashing up users’ passwords with a mathematical algorithm —
the company did not apply this level of security to people’s e-mail addresses
or the hints they use when they forget their passwords.

So Mr. Bartram was able to search for his friend’s email address, then copy
the “hashed” version of the password and search for other people
who used that same string of letters and numbers.
He found 500 people with the same password as his friend, and then searched the
nonencrypted hints that people had written if they forgot their password on the Adobe website.

“The best advice is for people not to recycle the same password in multiple places,” Mr. Krebs said.
“It’s prohibitively complex for hackers to crack passwords that are over 13 characters long;
people have to think pass phrases instead of passwords.”

but what is the anonymous password? i might need it soon.

dude..

You're signed in as anon right now.

I wonder how many people will be using "prohibitively" followed by a number as their passwords now?

Not reusing passwords is extremely important.

There isn't an arbitrary length that makes you "safe."

"prohibitively1" is about as hard to crack as "dinosaur1". They're both long English words with a number added. The number of letters isn't very relevant.

The people who do this for fun/profit are savvy to the ways people usually come up with passwords. They're not just writing programs to try "aaa", "aab", etc. They look at the psychology of password-choosing, the recorded history of passwords people use, and (whenever possible) the password criteria of the target website.

Things like the Adobe hack are obviously significant if you had an account with them and are using the same password + email elsewhere. Less obviously, it's significant if you are using the same password that anyone who had an account with Adobe used, regardless of the email address: all of those passwords are all now in dictionaries of known passwords.

Here's a great article on the topic: Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like "qeadzcwrsfxv1331"

I have a security tiered system. I have one that I use for things I don't care if someone knows.
I have one that I would share with those close to me, and I have one that no one will ever know.

And then I have list of ones that have to change and can't be re used. The list is protected by the last.

I have a couple cards in my rolodex on my desk, under "C" for computer, with all my passwords written on them. And they are all pretty much the same password. I suck at security.

I have an idea for a difficult password that I could remember, but it is long and a pain to type because you have to think as you are typing.

It's the house number of my childhood neighbor, followed by the initials of each of the members of that family in descending age order, followed by the house number of another neighbor, and their initials. Or instead of neighbors, it could be a relative, or celebrity family.

so it would look something like this:

78jbbbrbdb74jsdstsds

not terribly long, but it is unique. If everyone used this system it would be easy to hack, so I don't know why I'm announcing it, but there you go.

You could also do the first letter of each word of a poem you memorized in your youth:
lmcayshotmroproteoaisfhasinawrtfday

or combine the two:
lmcayshotmroproteoaisfhasinawrtfday78jbbbrbdb74jsdstsds

You just have to take 3 minutes to type the damn thing in as you think about it and carefully type.

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Originally Posted by gvidas (Post 883382)

Not reusing passwords is extremely important.

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Here's a great article on the topic: Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like "qeadzcwrsfxv1331"

Thank you so much. I had not read anything like that before. Very interesting.
Maybe I enjoyed it so much because I also enjoy the WWII stories about breaking military codes, etc.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 883394)

Thank you so much. I had not read anything like that before. Very interesting.
Maybe I enjoyed it so much because I also enjoy the WWII stories about breaking military codes, etc.

apart from the Colossus book by Prof. Copeland which I think I mentioned in another thread, you need 'Codes, ciphers secrets and cryptic communication' by Fred B. Wrixon. US$17.95, CAN$24.95, £12.95.
704 pages of good stuff, and some freaky heavy duty shit in there to keep you awake.