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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by mjlee on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:30AM (#21204131)
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.

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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by lolc on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:54AM (#21204371)
Want better password hygiene in the workplace? Encourage rude passwords!
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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by a3n on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @12:44PM (#21204959)
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.

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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by philpem on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:04AM (#21214616)
Good luck finding out where Penistone or Scunthorpe are...
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