What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is what American collegiate education has devolved into...
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1556683-encrypting-files-to-prevent-ransomeware
What do you expect from the same people that teach you that using an @ sign in a password is more secure than just the letter a.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver Thanks, I added that to the thread.
It doesn't surprise me. In undergrad we had two professors who would make claims that directly contradicted what they were teaching... there was a reason I ended up teaching their classes after hours.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
This is what American collegiate education has devolved into...
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1556683-encrypting-files-to-prevent-ransomeware
What do you expect from the same people that teach you that using an @ sign in a password is more secure than just the letter a.
You mean it's not? What about using 0 for O ?
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@dafyre said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
This is what American collegiate education has devolved into...
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1556683-encrypting-files-to-prevent-ransomeware
What do you expect from the same people that teach you that using an @ sign in a password is more secure than just the letter a.
You mean it's not? What about using 0 for O ?
Don't forget $ for s and 3 for E. -
@johnhooks Don't for ! for capital i or lowercase L just to be confusing....
Or maybe if IT changed it's practice of 8 characters, special case, upper lower to Any sentence you can think of.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@johnhooks Don't for ! for capital i or lowercase L just to be confusing....
Or maybe if IT changed it's practice of 8 characters, special case, upper lower to Any sentence you can think of.
Complete with spaces and punctuation.
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@dafyre said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@johnhooks Don't for ! for capital i or lowercase L just to be confusing....
Or maybe if IT changed it's practice of 8 characters, special case, upper lower to Any sentence you can think of.
Complete with spaces and punctuation.
1337
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@wirestyle22 said:
@dafyre said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@johnhooks Don't for ! for capital i or lowercase L just to be confusing....
Or maybe if IT changed it's practice of 8 characters, special case, upper lower to Any sentence you can think of.
Complete with spaces and punctuation.
1337
I am 1 3 3 7!
Would be far more secure. (47 million years to crack according to https://howsecureismypassword.net/)
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Feeling a bit down today, can't be bothered to do any work.
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@hobbit666 said:
Feeling a bit down today, can't be bothered to do any work.
Hang in there dude! As Tim Curry in Legend once asked "What is light without darkness?"
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Can you guess what password would take:
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@DustinB3403 said:
Can you guess what password would take:
I got it, it's "nobodywilleverguessthispasswordlol"
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@tonyshowoff said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Can you guess what password would take:
I got it, it's "nobodywilleverguessthispasswordlol"
You... shall not pass!
It's "nobody will ever guess this password lol !!!!!!!"
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Both of you are wrong... Sorry.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Both of you are wrong... Sorry.
Pssh, trying to cover up his embarrassment I cracked his password by osmosis.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Both of you are wrong... Sorry.
Pssh, trying to cover up his embarrassment I cracked his password by osmosis.
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The password is"
I am the most elite mf(Moderated) ever!
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Just had someone here try to tell me that when you go into a directory, your secondary groups aren't taken into account. You have to change your primary group to whatever the gid is of the directory.
So I demonstrated for him that secondary groups are definitely used for permissions and all he said was "I don't think that's how it works."
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@johnhooks said:
Just had someone here try to tell me that when you go into a directory, your secondary groups aren't taken into account. You have to change your primary group to whatever the gid is of the directory.
So I demonstrated for him that secondary groups are definitely used for permissions and all he said was "I don't think that's how it works."
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I thought primary group was a legacy pre-nt thing?
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@johnhooks said:
Just had someone here try to tell me that when you go into a directory, your secondary groups aren't taken into account. You have to change your primary group to whatever the gid is of the directory.
So I demonstrated for him that secondary groups are definitely used for permissions and all he said was "I don't think that's how it works."
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Was this a SW conversation?
