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  • streaker69
    • Mar 2008
    • 1141
    #31
    Re: Twitter hacked again

    Originally posted by valanx
    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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      • bascule
        omgpwnies!
        • Jul 2003
        • 1946
        #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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          • b0n3z
            Goon
            • Mar 2009
            • 137
            #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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              • barry99705
                Member
                • Sep 2007
                • 302
                #34
                Re: Twitter hacked again

                Originally posted by streaker69
                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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                  • bascule
                    omgpwnies!
                    • Jul 2003
                    • 1946
                    #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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                      • theprez98
                        SpoonfeederExtraordinaire
                        • Jan 2005
                        • 1507
                        #36
                        Re: Twitter hacked again

                        Originally posted by bascule
                        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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                          • theprez98
                            SpoonfeederExtraordinaire
                            • Jan 2005
                            • 1507
                            #37
                            Re: Twitter hacked again

                            Originally posted by bascule
                            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!
                            "\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";

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                              • xor
                                not
                                • Aug 2007
                                • 1347
                                #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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                                  • valkyrie
                                    Member
                                    • Jan 2006
                                    • 360
                                    #39
                                    Re: Twitter hacked again

                                    Originally posted by xor
                                    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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                                    saprere aude

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