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Re:New NIST password guidelines: don't require character typ... by jff on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:16AM (#13177107)
> during the inevitable outage it was comically discovered two star trek fans configured two machines to the same trek quote as a password.

Was it "Live long and prosper" or "He's dead, Jim"? The latter seems more suitable given the circumstances :)

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Re:New NIST password guidelines: don't require character typ... by VLM on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:34PM (#13178410)
I believe it was one of the numerous starship self destruct codes, which also technically passes the usual hoops of letters and numbers and mixed case and punctuation.

I actually looked it up: 1,1A(bunch more stuff here)000Destruct0 it was kinda long. From memory that movie even displayed it on the screen so the guys used the same capitalization and everything.

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