Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password
by elisto on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:51AM
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Does that mean that it is embarrassing and can be tied to you or that it is just embarrassing to say? If the first, then wouldn't you risk being pwned and having that used against you?
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Oh no not that embarrassing. I don't record private secrets into my passwords. They're more like "I never told Cindy I loved her." with Cindy being a now-dead cat. My embarrassment threshold is low :-)
I worked with someone who had to share a password to solve a major outage. (Yes, I know...)
It was a rude comment about a colleague.
Want better password hygiene in the workplace? Encourage rude passwords!
Password rule N+1: "A password must contain at least one word from our list of banned URLs."
At a former job I could not go to one of global corp Tata sites, because tata.
Good luck finding out where Penistone or Scunthorpe are...