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Article #5080Re: Passwords
From: ja... Jack Campin
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 16:40
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 16:40
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tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) wrote: > If you know the names of the WIVES of every man in your department, you > probably know at least 40% of their passwords. > If you know the name of the hottest TV SHOW on at the time, or the names > of the lead characters therein, you probably know another 10%. How many > passwords of "BART," "TWIN" or "PEAKS" are at your site?? A specialty in Britain is brands of beer (probably not applicable in a country where everyone drinks the same stuff). An ICL engineer told me he could get into at least one account on most of the machines he dealt with by trying a few names of local brews. -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: ja...@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack From: ja...@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Passwords Message-ID: <6554@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 13 Oct 90 16:40:02 GMT References: <1990Oct4.125022.8807@mozart.amd.com> <1990Oct8.231005.9272@mccc.uucp> <0093E00F.FDF21B20@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> <15938@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Reply-To: ja...@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie, Unthank Lines: 17 Posted: Sat Oct 13 17:40:02 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit