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Sysadmin tells user CSI-style password guessing never w– wait WTF?! It's 'PASSWORD1'!

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Conficker

Circa 2011, Conficker all over my network, ficking things. Microsoft advise is to enable password complexity (duh).

Response from the CAB: We can't do that, because managers aren't able to use complex passwords. In other words, people who have a driving licence and are able to vote in elections are nevertheless too stupid to come up with a word and stick a couple of digits and a percent sign on the end.

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