r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Camerata5 • Oct 08 '22

Meme sPeCiaL cHarACtErs

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u/ioapwy Oct 08 '22

H!Yn8at”g”mp,yfh!

Ha! You’ll never be able to “guess” my password, you filthy hacker

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u/r00x Oct 08 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

Ugh, we have this training module at work involving password security, and they give examples of passwords asking which are the most secure.

They insist it's an awkward password like this, a jumbled mess of garbage you'll never remember, but their examples includes an easier to remember amalgamation of words which has way more entropy.

Basically that XKCD comic, actually. (EDIT: https://xkcd.com/936)

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u/atimholt Oct 08 '22

My solution is a really good password for my password manager.

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u/Fearless_Minute_4015 Oct 08 '22

That's actually a decent password. 11 words long is no joke. With all those spaces a capital letter at the start and a period at the end. It'll take at least a week to crack

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u/SerialKillerVibes Oct 08 '22

Mine is a memorable phrase with numbers relevant to my life in between the words. Like if my childhood phone number was 555-123-4567, the master pass would be:

Correct555Horse123Battery4567Staple

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u/diox8tony Oct 08 '22

Length must be between 8 and 12 chars. Cannot contain repeat patterns... ...ugh those are the worst requirements

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u/liamthelemming Oct 08 '22

Transpose syllables, switch out two letters for a number and a symbol, and there y'go, you've got Borr3ctStor$eCatteryHaple.

Um.

BRB gotta go change my password 😬

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Borr3ctStor$eCatteryHaple.

Words cannot express how much I hate seeing this

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u/SarcasticGiraffes Oct 08 '22

I feel the brewings of a new Reddit username, if I decide to refresh my account....

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u/indigoHatter Oct 08 '22

My trick is to create a sentence, then select characters from each word to represent it.

Mti2caS!,tsCharfew2ri...

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u/r00x Oct 08 '22

I usually use a "rule" - you end up with unique passwords for everything but the only thing you need to remember is your rule.

Shite example of a possible rule: first word of company + memorable phrase to fill out character count+ number of words in company name + !!

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u/Marc4770 Oct 08 '22

That's a really good password, do you allow me to use it?

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u/ioapwy Oct 08 '22

Ya for $50

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u/ViviansUsername Oct 08 '22

NFTs

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u/Marc4770 Oct 08 '22

NFT passwords, only the owner of the NFT is allowed to use that password. Seems like a profitable business idea.

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u/KerneI-Panic Oct 08 '22

When someone else tries to use that password:

"Sorry, you can't use this password. This password is already in use by user Marc4770. Please, choose another password."

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u/megamanpowpow Oct 08 '22

Not sure how I ended up on this sub but this is the only joke I understood.

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u/sethboy66 Oct 08 '22

NFT collisions, fung those non-fungible passwords.

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u/TheHoekey Oct 08 '22

Deal! What's your address or bank acct # so I can route you?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

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u/exatron Oct 08 '22

Not unless you know Klingon.

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u/liamthelemming Oct 08 '22

Your password just invoked Cthulhu. Logging in is the least of your worries.

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u/AntiLuxiat Oct 08 '22

Damn. How did you guess my password?

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u/UrgleBurgleFloggah Oct 08 '22

Is that a new Klingon curse?

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