Showing posts with label passwords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passwords. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Worst Wifi Password Ever



Is this funny?

False advertising. Easily solved. Difficult to communicate verbally in English to thickheads is not the same thing as worst wifi password ever. 

I was hoping for a really technically bad password.

Modern "Who's on First?" And that routine gets more credit than it deserves. They stick with the same construction, locution, syntax that confuses to extend the same confusion instead of switching, or switching forms.  I'm surprised to learn that it's a film about a baseball Vaudeville act. I've seen the original movie, and the I've seen the routine a dozen times, it seems, apparently people are taken by humor in ambiguity. 

They should hire me. I could write a dozen of these easily.

To be honest, there are too many personal examples, a few that by repetition, and not by me, become similar tales that from my point of view at the time from within them desperate without anything funny to them. Not one thing. Different situations. Pits of despair where earnest sincere communication attempts fail in series by wheels spinning in miscomprehension. They are not funny, in each example I'm quite stupid, yet somehow hilarious to others. 

Saturday, April 19, 2014

ObamaCare Heartbleed

"Healthcare.gov users asked to reset passwords following Heartbleed bug."

"The officials are requesting that Healthcare.gov users reset their passwords after a continuing internal review by the Department of Homeland security flagged the site as possibly being vulnerable to a Heartbleed exploit. The move to reset passwords is being taken "out of an abundance of caution," according to a a notice published on the site, which serves as a portal for the health insurance exchanges set up under Obamacare. In addition, the note says that "there’s no indication" that any information was revealed through Heartbleed."


"Critics of the Affordable Care Act may seize the opportunity to attack the much-maligned Healthcare.gov website, which was plagued by bugs during its launch last year..."

The Verge

Friday, July 26, 2013

passwords, Feds want 'em.

Declan McCullagh news.cnet

Feds tell web firms to turn over passwords.

Marks an escalation in Internet surveillance.

To log into accounts and peruse correspondence, even impersonate the user.

Plus encryption.


Said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. 
"We push back."
So there's hope!

Microsoft won't say.

Google declined to disclose

Yahoo would not say

Apple, Facebook AOL, Verizon, AT&T, Tie Warner Cable, and Comcast did not respond.

FBI declined to comment, politely, no doubt. 

Patriot Act used to demand database dumps.

The rest is codes, algorithms, costs, lengths of passwords, more costs, cracking codes, Sen Ron Wyden warns, "government authority limitless," law, legal issues, specific cases.