Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers

Re:Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress st... by kunai on Thursday July 18, 2013 @05:25PM (#6066629)

The first thing that came to my mind was: god, these are horrible passwords.

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Re:Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress st... by h0w412d on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:21PM (#6066947)

Well, have you ever not thought that after a password leak?

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Re:Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress st... by lukifer on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:01PM (#6067415)

Makes me wonder if the responsible thing to do when running a web service is to constantly dictionary-attack and brute-force your own server, and whenever it gets a hit, email the user and force a password change. In theory, the userbase would evolve towards better passwords over time.

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