Re: Police secret password blunder

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Blue Boar wrote:

> Kane Lightowler wrote:
> > There are also bizarre passwords such as "smellyundies", "enforcer", 
> > "chunder" and "crunchymaggots".
>
> Yes, that does plug right into Google:
>
> http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:-VwsFzhzp9AJ:customscripts.police.nsw.gov.au/news/jornal/jornalistlist.php%3Forder%3DFullName+crunchymaggots&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
>
> (didn't work as all one query, I guess the list is paginated)
>
> And look, looks like their default is password-matches-username.
 
A lot of people try to do that if you don't prevent them.

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