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  • #31
    Re: Twitter hacked again

    Originally posted by valanx View Post
    sigh..

    So in mentioning superman, it reminded me that the last time I ran a DoD audit about 12% of the passwords were some form of "superman". Strangely, nobody had a password called "overbearingego" or "napoleoncomplex".

    But that was a few years ago, maybe they have moved on to transformers underwear now.
    Many years ago I was working Desktop Support at a large multinational, and it was common practice to ask users for their passwords when doing work on their machines. We got a call from HR Drone asking for help. The tech that got the call asked her for her password and she hesitated for a bit, and then whispered "spankme".
    A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.

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    • #32
      Re: Twitter hacked again

      In other news, 37signals, where all this Ruby on Rails stuff that Twitter uses originates, apparently stores passwords in plaintext. Way to go guys.
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      • #33
        Re: Twitter hacked again

        haha, I was speaking more in terms of our AKO accounts we use and the limits for them.

        Not surprising really though on the total number of passwords being superman.
        Saving the world one computer at a time...

        or possibly destroying, I haven't figured that out yet.

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        • #34
          Re: Twitter hacked again

          Originally posted by streaker69 View Post
          Many years ago I was working Desktop Support at a large multinational, and it was common practice to ask users for their passwords when doing work on their machines. We got a call from HR Drone asking for help. The tech that got the call asked her for her password and she hesitated for a bit, and then whispered "spankme".
          I'll be right over!

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          • #35
            Re: Twitter hacked again

            Have I mentioned that the Twitter people are totally fucking incompetent and don't know what the fuck they're doing?
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            • #36
              Re: Twitter hacked again

              Originally posted by bascule View Post
              Have I mentioned that the Twitter people are totally fucking incompetent and don't know what the fuck they're doing?
              Help request...
              Submitted 13 days ago
              [Still] Awaiting assignment to a help desk operator.
              Looks like they're on top of it!
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              • #37
                Re: Twitter hacked again

                Originally posted by bascule View Post
                Have I mentioned that the Twitter people are totally fucking incompetent and don't know what the fuck they're doing?
                Apparently after failing to assign a help request to someone for 14 days, the request is automatically closed as if someone actually helped you.
                It's been two weeks and we haven't been able to get to your request. Twitter is a free service, and while we try to provide as much help as we can, we can't get to every email. Sorry about that!
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                • #38
                  Re: Twitter hacked again

                  Dudes, what do you expect.....it's 140 characters of pretty text. Just remember that. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Twitter support department, what a mind numbing job that must be.

                  xor
                  Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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                  • #39
                    Re: Twitter hacked again

                    Originally posted by xor View Post
                    Dudes, what do you expect.....it's 140 characters of pretty text. Just remember that. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Twitter support department, what a mind numbing job that must be.

                    xor
                    The daily come to Jesus meetings must be stupendous!

                    Regards,

                    valkyrie
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