Re: Password security

Jeff Lightner via Ale <[email protected]>
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That made me think of Spaceballs:

Dark Helmet: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
[President Skroob walks in.]
Skroob: What's the combination?
Colonel Sandurz: One, two, three, four, five.
Skroob: One, two, three, four, five? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
[Colonel Sandurz and Dark Helmet give each other a look.]
Skroob: Prepare Spaceball 1 for immediate departure!
Colonel Sandurz: Yes sir.
Skroob: And change the combination on my luggage!

 

From: Ale <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Tweedy via Ale
Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:50 PM
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Cc: Robert Tweedy <robert-n5x44ekpxEM2E409LDVIOQC/[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ale] Password security

 

Nor be like the first Linux system I ever encountered when I was a kid (a display system w/GUI in some small Marietta computer store I now forget the name of). The interaction went something like this:

Me: *sees usernames on login screen's list* Huh, "root" is a funny name.
*enters "root" into password prompt & clicks "Login"*
Me: This is neat; wonder what this is? *proceeds to click other stuff accessible from the KDE 2.x launcher menus until it was time to leave, during which at some point "reboot" was clicked*...

On 11/6/25 16:35, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:

Maybe don't use the organization name as the video surveillance system password like THEY DID AT THE LOUVRE!!

 

<sitting in stunned silence>

 

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