{"id":12015,"date":"2018-04-16T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/news-5784\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:30:04","slug":"news-5784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/news-5784\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, DID she ever change her password?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flashback to the days when this pilot fish is managing an email system for several corporate clients, and he needs to pick good passwords from the get-go — because these users will never bother changing them.<\/p>\n

“I wrote a program to generate accounts and to create a password,” says fish. “The system consisted of a dictionary of about 100 three-letter words, and a separate dictionary of four-letter words where I had tried to remove the bad words. Then there was a list of special symbols, and then the digits 0 through 9.<\/p>\n

“The system chose one element from each list, and put them in a random order. It then printed the information out. I folded the piece of paper and placed it in an envelope and mailed it — never actually looking at it.<\/p>\n

“So of course a female customer who was well over 400 lbs. just had to get the password 1fat-lady<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“She just would never believe that this was a computer-generated thing and that it was not done on purpose.<\/p>\n

“Actually, I knew her from past contacts, and had I created a password to insult her on purpose, it would have been something a lot less complimentary.”<\/p>\n

Sharky likes his passwords long and his tales of IT life true.<\/strong> So send me your story at sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You’ll score a sharp Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today’s tale at Sharky’s Google+ community<\/strong><\/a>, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flashback to the days when this pilot fish is managing an email system for several corporate clients, and he needs to pick good passwords from the get-go — because these users will never bother changing them.<\/p>\n

“I wrote a program to generate accounts and to create a password,” says fish. “The system consisted of a dictionary of about 100 three-letter words, and a separate dictionary of four-letter words where I had tried to remove the bad words. Then there was a list of special symbols, and then the digits 0 through 9.<\/p>\n

“The system chose one element from each list, and put them in a random order. It then printed the information out. I folded the piece of paper and placed it in an envelope and mailed it — never actually looking at it.<\/p>\n

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