{"id":9508,"date":"2017-09-26T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/news-3281\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:30:02","slug":"news-3281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/news-3281\/","title":{"rendered":"The real problem? It's too @#$%! easy to guess!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a few decades back, and this IT pilot fish’s desk is within easy earshot of the woman in the Security group who unlocks user accounts for the tech staff.<\/p>\n

“It was in a corner of the technical library — an office with racks of technical manuals that people would come and look up error codes in, back in the previous century,” says fish.<\/p>\n

“Because I was so close to this woman’s desk, I overheard the following conversation many times each day:<\/p>\n

“Hello, this is Security.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Pause.<\/i><\/p>\n

“What is your ID?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Sound of typing.<\/i><\/p>\n

“What is your password, so I can verify your account?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Pause. More typing.<\/i><\/p>\n

“OK, your account is reset.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“That was always the same, until one afternoon when she asked, ‘What is your password?’ and there was a long silence.<\/p>\n

“A very<\/i> long silence.<\/p>\n

“Then I finally heard her again as she said, ‘Well, if you can’t say it to a woman, I guess you shouldn’t have used it as your password!’ and slammed down the phone.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’s a few decades back, and this IT pilot fish’s desk is within easy earshot of the woman in the Security group who unlocks user accounts for the tech staff.<\/p>\n

“It was in a corner of the technical library — an office with racks of technical manuals that people would come and look up error codes in, back in the previous century,” says fish.<\/p>\n

“Because I was so close to this woman’s desk, I overheard the following conversation many times each day:<\/p>\n

“Hello, this is Security.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Pause.<\/i><\/p>\n

“What is your ID?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Sound of typing.<\/i><\/p>\n

“What is your password, so I can verify your account?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Pause. More typing.<\/i><\/p>\n

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