Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 15, 2021

That’s not a password, That is an site address.

After all, what is a password, if not a “magic spell” that gets you to something valuable…?

Time to change my Gocomics password.

Knew a guy in Boeing who got chastised by management for using the password “a**hole” for his IBM mainframe account, so he changed it to “b*tthole”.

Well doesn’t seemed to have made it into HaveIBeenPwned yet

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

At least it isn’t a “tub” generated password. I could never remember those password. But maybe since the Wiz is dealing with spirits it should be passward. He must have a lot of wards set up to guard his laboratory.

But will he remember said password or have to store it somewhere where he can access it?

I wonder how many people tried putting in the word password.I would be surprised if it got accepted.

LOL!

Even so, I’d use 2FA.

amazing… I have the same combination on my luggage…

Wrong spelling is the new Da Vinci code. Security through obfuscation.

the 4 at the end dos’nt make sense

At GE training classes, we were usually given a password to use: “pa$$word”. Wow, how clever! /s

Arthur C. Clarke’s 3rd law “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I did not know it was pronounced like that.

Data security trivia:

Not all that long ago the default unix password system (I forget what the technical name for it is) used a ten bit “hash” for password authentication. All passwords would be processed into a ten bit hash and compared it to the stored hash. It must have seemed secure to somebody, but it meant a carefully selected list of 1024 words contained all passwords necessary to access literally any account, past, present, or future. “Dictionary attacks” using such lists put an end to that nonsense.

However, all modern password systems store our passwords as a hash, but usually a 64 or 128 bit hash. That oughta do it!

Pass phrases have been de rigeur for at least 5 years. Where have y’all been?

Discretionary use of the shift key helps.

There are a number of password generators based on this: https://xkcd.com/936/

I’ve used the same one for years and no matter what I type, it automatically fills it in correctly for me: ********

I like it, mine is… π%^&AVOççQ

LOL!

My default password is “AllenLudden1961”. :-P

Somewhat better than the password in “Spaceballs” (Mel Brooks)

‘correct horse battery staple’ is better, and easier to remember. Which is why half the Internet knows it now.

hey that’s my password!

Fr1mm1n’ 0ñ The }im }am

Friqqin’ on teh kr^tz

Abr@ Abr@C*DAbr4

1 Ɯ@nNa rƐa¢h 0u+ & grab ʎa

HATE Passwords!!!