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Re: Password Audit

Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:03 am
by tauruspt145
A father shark is teaching his son how to hunt humans. He says first pick one that is away from a group and when you know thats the one you want stick your fin out of the water and slowly start circling the human, start going faster and swimming closer then bam eat the human. The son say's that's great dad but it seems like alot of work why take so long? The father says thats easy, humans usually taste better with the poop on the outside.

Re: Password Audit

Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:10 pm
by ELB
A number of years ago as part of a renewed emphasis on securing our unclassified networks, I had my guys run a password cracker against our (military) unit's password file. I think we let it run only 30 minutes. We uncovered boatloads of standard words and phrases that should not have been used as passwords, contacted those users, had a chat with them about choosing robust passwords, and had them change them.

We used a number of the cracked passwords later in a security briefing to whole unit. Everyone laughed and pointed at one particular individual who drove a brand new 1998 Ford Mustang and was a big Cowboys fan when the password "CowboysStang98" appeared on the screen.

What was really interesting was that almost all the cracked passwords that we used in the briefing came from men, and they generally revolved around sports, cars, and dogs/pets. We couldn't use many of the women's passwords (or put them on this forum), because a lot of them revolved around sex -- fairly explicitly. We were a bit surprised. :eek6