I still don't understand why anyone would ever need a password manager simply remember your passwords
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Vriska Returns To The Sea (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:39:07 JST Vriska Returns To The Sea -
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Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:39:06 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: @vriska Or don't use passwords to begin with. :rollsafe: -
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Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:52:47 JST Account: Computers @Moon @vriska One of the first systems that I worked on had 3-letter passwords. I was an undergrad back then, mind. So, after some snooping around I found that it kept them in a 16-bit word. That immediately made me think about Radix-50 encoding, and after some quick cryptoanalysis in Fortran IV, I found that the encryption was a rotation left by 5 bits. The master password was "WOW". Using this information, I went around universities in the city, penetrating student terminal rooms, and getting privileged access. For one of them, I forged a student ID by using a pencil and a piece of paper that I attached to my own ID with small chunks of bread in leu of removable adhesive. When the developers heard about this, they updated the system to keep 8-character passwords in a separate file, accessible with a special syscall, and modified all utilities of course. Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this.Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: repeated this. -
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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:52:48 JST Sexy Moon @pro @vriska my first real job out of college was on ibm aix machines and they only hashed the first eight letters of your password Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: repeated this. -
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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:52:49 JST Sexy Moon @vriska i have several hundred -
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Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:52:49 JST Account: Computers @Moon @vriska My "password manager" remembers 788 password entities, although not all of them are for websites. Some are for LUKS, some are for routers, etc. The first password it remembers is for "Java development", and the 2nd is for Avogato. It only had 8 characters! I put the manager in quotes because there's no manager. I just store passwords in files and encrypt them with PGP. This excludes my mobile devices, but fortunately I do not lead a mobile life. On the upside, large-scale intrusions at password managers do not affect me. -
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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 13:09:03 JST Sexy Moon @pro @vriska in the 1990s i bought a copy of 2600 and it had a hack you could do on hp-ux where there was literally just an open network port that was directly to the sound device. We had an entire lab of hp-ux machines at my university donated by hp.
so i wrote a script to scan the network for every machine with that open port and piped a ulaw file of a dog barking to every machine. they couldn't figure out how to stop it so they had to beg everybody to get on the physical machines and turn down the speaker volume all the way.Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this. -
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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 13:10:03 JST Sexy Moon @pro @vriska hp-ux was weird. you had to use the tar command directly on the floppy device file to read and write files on floppy disks. Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this. -
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Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 13:10:04 JST Account: Computers @Moon @vriska Oh god, I can see that happening. We had an HP printer that listened on port 9000. Anything piped there, it would print. No firewalls, no passwords, no nothing. It was their network printing solution before JetDirect.
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