Reply to post: Re: Redacted Passwords

Deloitte is a sitting duck: Key systems with RDP open, VPN and proxy 'login details leaked'

JR
Devil

Re: Redacted Passwords

They must use the BOFH password strategy...

From https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/03/bofh_2017_episode_1/

"A good thing too, because I have three passwords I use for everything – Low, Medium and High Security."

"And I'm assuming that this is low security?"

"No, work is low security, this is medium and all the personal stuff I care about is high."

"Work is LOW?!" he gasps.

"Of course it is. It used to be Medium High, but then I realised that there was no point so I just went to low. One capital, some lowercase, 2 numbers."

"Like Banana47."

"Yeah, that was our admin password for about two years."

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