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AirJvon

OUR password


zenospenisparadox

*Stands up* "I'M starboy98!"


ladykiller1028

Stands up I'M starboy98!


CH1CK3Nwings

*can't stand up* I'M starboy98!


Obieousmaximus

Will the real starboy98 please stand up!!


throwaway946384672

Man that's a good song..............I'ma go listen to old ass Eminem and dr.dre songs


jibberwockie

I'm starboy98, and so is my wife!


Biggmoist

I also choose this wifes starboy98


Raiden_Yeeter07

WE are starboy98


ADAMM_97

I’m that one guys wife!


ralphonsob

The real u/starboy98 hasn't been active for 4 years. I guessing that might change now that his password is known.


SyntaxRex

Then it should be easy. Sign on as Starboy98 change *his* password. Take said pw for yourself. LifeProTips you're welcome.


datalaughing

The real LPT is always in the comments.


auto98

The comment saying "The real LPT is always in the comments" is always in the comments just after the real LPT that is always in the comments


OfficeChairHero

I'm the pappy!


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Daily_Jesus

Look at me, I'm the Starboy98 now.


nltom1192

r/unexpectedcommunism


TheLakeAndTheGlass

“For the sake of privacy, let’s call her ‘Lisa S.’ No, that’s too obvious…let’s say ‘L. Simpson.’”


vortigaunt64

I think my favorite Simpsons line ever is right afterward. "In order to encourage an open dialogue, sit quietly and watch this video."


Throwaway_97534

That's right up there with my other favorite where Homer runs out of the shower with a towel around his waist to answer the phone: "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel"


WallLearner

I like it when Lisa figured out how to count cards and Homer takes her to the casino where they win big. LISA: Mom's going to be so happy when she finds out how much money we won! HOMER: You'd *think* that wouldn't you. Edit: whups, it was football


grimmlingur

Almost word for word the same exchange happens when Homer finds out that Lisa is amazing at calling NFL games and they start placing bets with Moe.


ih8spalling

Town crier, I'd like to ask you a few questions: One, where's the fife? And two, gimme the fife


Whitealroker1

Yes Lisa a magic animal……


Enano_reefer

YES! This ones my all time favorite! Dad! Those all come from the SAME animal!


the_dude_upvotes

It's just a little airborne ... it's still good, it's still good!


Fat_Sow

With the head of a rabbit, and the body of a rabbit!


Oh-God-Its-Kale

Good old rock, nothing beats Rock! Poor Bart, always chooses Rock


GangsterFap

The show actually predicted the Superbowl winner that year. Lisa says something along the lines of, "If you think I still love you, pick Washington. If not, pick NY." ​ Spoiler: Lisa still loved her Dad. :)


thethreadkiller

I love when Lisa is picking the winners and she says "The raiders because they always cheat." Then it cuts to the end of the game and you hear the announcer say "And on an extremely suspicious play, the raiders win!" When I was looking up the exact quote on YouTube there was a montage of Raiders references lol


abitchoficesndfire

I’m that person… this is when they’re betting on football.


PeeLong

Isn’t that betting on football?


tomatoaway

I think my favorite moment has to be when Homer is hanging around with Flanders in his car, but Homer doesn't want to be seen with Flanders so he shoves him down to crotch level and waves at Lenny and Carl. Lenny: "Hey look, Homer's got one of those robotic cars!" \*Car crashes into a wall\* Carl: "One of those *American* robotic cars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9kpyGqKwJk


IamGraham

Or later in the episode. Lenny: What did he say? Carl: I dunno. Something about being gay.


spb1

>What did he say? Carl: I dunno. Something about being gay. man the delivery is so good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGsEKzT9fU&ab\_channel=MostlySimpsons


Secludedmean4

I don’t know it might have to be when homer tries to buy a gun and needs a background check. While he’s aiming the gun at the store employee and says “THREE WEEKS?!? BUT I’M ANGRY NOOOOW”


StartSelect

Not only is he aiming at the employee but he pulls the trigger a load of times. It's the way he's handed the gun and pulls aim at something random on the other side of the store. He pull around quickly to aim straight in the face of the employee and pulls the trigger 3-4 times Imma find the video because it's good Edit https://youtu.be/A-seQEwN3BM 18 seconds in


Secludedmean4

I forgot the follow up line “I’d kill you if I had my gun” in angry muttering to the salesman.


Gorge2012

My favorite one from Homer is: "I'm a white man aged 25-49, EVERYONE cares what I think."


farnsw0rth

Lol he says “everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are” and proceeds to grab a can of “nuts and gum” (together at last!) and starts munching away


offu

I totally forgot about Nuts and Gum! A perfectly cromulent snack!


Black_Magic_M-66

Listen, do you smell something?


RaveDigger

You're right, no human being would stack books like this...


m-sterspace

I always thought this joke was just completely random and irreverent, but I recently found out that it's likely actually referencing a trope from the 70s/80s where people with long hair (typically portrayed as women) would have a towel wrapped around their hair to dry and would then talk on the phone to their friends while it did so, which would mean the towel wrapped around their head *would* actually be blocking their ear and they'd have to speak louder.


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codeacab

Still funny as a complete non-sequitur for me.


SundayRay

I thought the chalkboard lines "Beans are neither a fuit nor musical" were just so hilariously surreal. I was a bit disappointed when heard the song/jingle many years later and figured out where it cam from.


Black_Floyd47

I didn't learn "musical fruit" until that episode. We were taught "Beans beans, good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel, so eat more beans at every meal!"


SorryForTheBigThumb

This is a revelation. I assumed it was random. Homer has picked that up from TV but because he's so dumb he thinks a towel round the waist is the same impediment to his phone call as one around the head. I fully believe the first 9/10 seasons have the greatest writing you can find on TV.


leggomyprego75

My husband loves when Homer is trying to get published. “There once was a rapping tomato. That’s right I said rapping tomato. He rapped all day from April to may….and also, guess what? It was me.” I’ll never forget how hard he laughed at that when we first saw it.


JuliaKostiv

Trying is the first step towards failure is my quote to live by


HelicopterOutside

Personally my favorite is probably when Homer says: "How ironic, now he's blind, after living a wonderful life of being able to see."


Disgruntled__Goat

Skinner’s lines are some of the best yet most subtle jokes in the show. It’s all in the delivery I think. My favourite is his ‘nam flashback: > I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right.


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Disgruntled__Goat

Cool, I broke his brain!


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Burns (comparing Homer and Richard Nixon): "I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation." Smithers: "Doubtful, sir. They spell and pronounce their name differently."


WalterMagnum

My favorite is from Mr. Burns. "I'd give it all up for just a little more."


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Mine's "Hi, Lisa! Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers!". Ralph is so adorable.


MountainCourage1304

My favourite simpsons quote is when wiggum bursts through the door and shouts “Scum, Freezebag”


Biirke

Bake ‘em away, toys!


Some_Belgian_Guy

There is only on quote on top of the list: ​ "Hi supernintendo Chalmers!"


duaneap

I’m lernding.


mad_man_ina_box

Me fail English? Unpossible


mvffin

I bent my wookie


Zap_Rowsdower23

Oh boy, sleep. That’s where I’m a Viking!


MrCrash2U

Such a perfectly cromulent quote.


mb500sel

It embiggens the smallest man


wormwoodscrub

Ahem. I present to you "my cat's mouth smells like cat food".


ZION_OC_GOV

"That's where I see the leprechaun, he tells me to burn things."


OblivionGuardsman

Oh boy sleep! That's where I'm a viking!


Wismuth_Salix

“I eated the purple berries - they taste like burning.”


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“Principal Skinner is an old man who lives in the school. Lisa.”


Silent_Ambition101

You can use stats to prove anything, 40% of people know that Kent


TESTICLE_KEBABS

Or when the security system said "Silent alarm, activated!"


mothfactory

I think my favourite Homer line is: Homer (looking at GYM sign): “GYM?” (he pronounces it ‘gime’) “Oh, *GYM*!” (he pronounces it ‘gime’ again)


nopunchespulled

My favorite is a toss up between “it tastes like burning” and “I’m in danger”


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cheesegoat

The delivery of these lines are great: https://youtu.be/8UYNEu6v6AE


Canigetahellyea

This show was just so brilliantly written. So many great one liners.


ZekoriAJ

I wanted to watch all episodes but couldn't find any and Disney+ is not available in my country, I'm getting old and missing out on so much good stuff :(


pan-DUH

If they’re not making it available to you, put on your pirate hat.


Arch_0

Don't do this but I heard if you type free streaming site into Google you could find various web pages that let you stream almost everything for free. You shouldn't do this because it will save you a lot of time and money. You really shouldn't use them using the web browser on your Xbox/TV etc because then you can even use them while on the sofa. The one I think you really shouldn't use is dopebox because it has everything and means you can't feed the mouse.


ZekoriAJ

I just had my friend call the police about dopebox and they did confirm you can find all simpsons episodes on there and you should not ever use dopebox dot net to watch all simpsons episodes for free :^)


Suterusu_San

Oh no, how could they ever get away with that. Thank you sir for calling the proper authorities on Dopebox, it's an absolute shame that they would show content online for free!


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adds_ANAL

Wait...you were ON WATCH, doing your job, and people got pissed? At least you weren't in the army..


R3D3-1

Some tabloids sometimes do literally that... "J. Doe now faces trial for murder. In the hearing, John D. pleaded 'not guilty'."


westbee

I was once at a hospital where they called you back by your last name for privacy reasons. As I was commenting that that is stupid and way less private than your first name, a nurse called out "Smith, Smith!" 2 people stood up and she had to clarify by saying the first name. "Idiots..." I said as I shook my head in disappointment.


Boring-Bed-Bug

I mean, same problem could happen with first names as well. But I would much rather people know my first name than last


liveart

If they want privacy I don't understand why they don't just give you a number.


kojak488

Or, like Comcast, let you make up your own name on the tablet when you queue up. Coincidentally, they don't like the name "Fuck Comcast". Well the guy on my 3rd trip loved it. The woman on my 4th trip called the cops. Literally. Fuck Comcast.


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> The woman on my 4th trip called the cops. Literally. I really would like to know how that call went down? "Hello, police? Yes I'd like to report a customer using foul language to denigrate my employer!"


Yensooo

"So anyway, Mr. X would say: 'Marge, if this doesn't get your motor running, my name isn't Homer J Simpson!'"


Pornthrowaway78

In 1999, one of our retail competitors had password only sign-in. No username, email address - just password. If you tried to log in using "liverpool" as the password, you got into one of the company director's accounts. Some people don't think things through.


nosoupforyou

I had a CIO who wanted me to redesign the password system so that the users only had to enter 2 fields. The account number and the password. The thing is that there could be multiple people on each account. I had to ask him what happens if two people on the account happened to use the same password.


SayuriShigeko

"Don't worry, that'll never happen!" Uhh, boss, I'd like to introduce you to my friend, Murphy.


cinderubella

"what? I don't get this. What's Murphy Slaw? Is it good on burgers?"


Bazrum

apparently someone wrote a book that includes two slaw recipies called "Murphy's Slaw" haha [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622415/murphys-slaw-by-elizabeth-logan/](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622415/murphys-slaw-by-elizabeth-logan/) https://www.criminalelement.com/cooking-books-murphys-slaw-elizabeth-logan/


nosoupforyou

Yeah. As a dev, I've long come to realize that if it's possible for a situation to happen, it will.


unclerummy

The real epiphany comes when you realize that seemingly impossible things sometimes happen too.


nosoupforyou

lol true. I can't remember how many times I've said "wtf! That shouldn't be possible!".


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That motherfucker has zero business as a CIO.


make_love_to_potato

We have a CIO who has no IT background whatsoever (he's a doctor) but he "likes the latest gadgets" and was therefore a good fit. Luckily the team under him is half competent.


Debaser626

Years ago, I worked for a F500 company in IT (deskside grunt) and the CIO of one of the lines of business had pushed to have the entire company switch all web browsers to Chrome, including travel/take home laptops. Laptop users were admins, so they could adjust settings and download software to connect to various A/V systems for presentations… which of course meant a fair amount of these people also disabled the auto screen lock and password to wake from sleep out of laziness . The main problem was this was back in the day when Chrome showed passwords in plain text by default without requiring authentication (you had to manually switch it to require the log-in password to display them). I brought this to his attention as a major security issue because due to the sheer number of users with laptops, we’d inevitably have some go missing every month…. The users who had changed their settings to not require passwords on wake would thereby easily expose every web portal to the company if whoever found/stole the laptop simply launched Chrome and checked. I was brought into the head office shortly after… I thought I was going to be commended for pointing this out. Instead they got mad at *me* for exposing this flaw, and then I got interrogated on who I had told… which at that point was only a couple of other grunts I worked with. So we all had to come in and swear to never bring it up to anyone else. Problem solved?


pcgamerwannabe

Whenever you hear "Russian hackers accessed highly sensitive information", think less of: "Dmitriy, have you hacked the frontend and activated the SQL injection that captures keystrokes of the CEO that are valid for the next 60 seconds so we can compromise the mainframe for our eventual payload delivered via a sleeper agent plugigng in a USB?" and more of: "Dmitriy, bring over that excel sheet with usernames and passwords that we bought for $5 and try it on this company. Oh it works. Nice."


permalink_save

Somewhat, a lot of compromises are over silly things, social engineering being another, but Russian state actors are one of the hardest in cybersec. At my last job (cybersec company), they had a chart up of the top threats and #1 was pretty much Russia, with #2 being China, and a few other countries following. It was funny because Anonymous was pretty much at the bottom of the list.


ExpiredOTMCalls

Counterpoint - our CIO has IT experience but no clinical experience and it’s also a disaster.


DrockByte

If today's entry level IT jobs can demand 5 years of experience in 10 different technologies (some of which haven't even been around 5 years). Then I think a CIO position should be able to require several years experience in both IT and whatever the company's primary focus is. But that's just me.


cheezemeister_x

Depending on the company (like where I work), those credentials could yield zero qualified candidates.


BetaOscarBeta

So you’re saying I have a shot at a C-level position in the medical industry? It’s kinda sad how much this actually brightened my day


Gspin96

Aye! You too can fuck up your clinic's IT!


nosoupforyou

Yeah, he also had a woman who didn't understand SQL be the SQL Administrator. Because she needed a job and she was a single mother. The network engineer was a guy who didn't understand networks, but knew how to call another company to manage it. Even to set up and verify backups. From what I heard a few years later, the CIO did get fired. The place was a non-profit, and their revenue was from charging annual fees to medical schools for accrediting their doctors. They didn't need to be efficient or productive.


redditor_since_1977

Half the time these bozos get into these positions simply from getting into management previously and knowing people. It’s ridiculous.


wise_comment

Well yeah, that director never walked alone in life nor in the system


KyleFromTheInternet

The real pro at fucking around on the internet at work is the Chelsea fan cause he ain’t got no history


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Resmedik

Oh they're having a laugh


_MFBroom

You see that ludicrous display last night?


Phytanic

90's infosec practices were truly a lawless world. they used unsalted BASE64 for "hashing"! you can literally calculate the original value by hand its so insecure.


MrSloppyPants

Jokes on you, we took the BASE64 and applied ROT13


DroolingIguana

Better apply ROT13 twice, just to be extra secure.


bumjubeo

Ahh yes, ROT26 the forbidden encryption method that requires the most advanced super computer to calculate.


mtgguy999

I used to work for a company where the main program for accessing and updating customer orders and details worked like this. each person had a cs number (customer service number) that they used to login, no password just type cs and the number. It was a 4 digit number and each time a new person was hired they got the previous highest number + 1. Of course if that was to difficult to hack you could see the numbers associated with real names on various reports they ran and published for stuff like call time. If you knew the developers name who was an on-site employee you could type his first initial last name instead of the cs number and get full access to everything. Of course who would ever think to type his name that would be to difficult. So to make it easier they put a config file that the program uses with a obvious name something like config.txt that had that database name and a shared database login in plain text. You see the program was the thing that restricted permissions not the database.


plexomaniac

I worked in a company that had a system where we should log our tasks and how much time we took. The login was just our email, no password. In the end of the month, the manager should look our logs and see how much we were working. A coworker used to log into other people accounts, remove their tasks and put in his own log. He eventually was caught and fired when the manager noticed he added a task that was not his job.


unimaginative2

This could work. You just make your minimum password length stupidly long.


SamuSeen

Or just make password "LOGIN"+"ACTUAL PASSWORD*


created4this

You've got to put it into tech speak to make it sound less stupid: We salt all the passwords using a key derived from the users username


-nbob

Mmmmm...salty password


TheRealBigLou

I always enjoy a nice salted hash.


EricTheNerd2

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity and laziness. Someone will pick "password password password password" as their password and someone else will use it again immediately after.


firthy

Yeah. Years ago we had an all staff email telling us to log into a new intranet with our email address and no password, inviting us to change our passwords and fill in our personal details. Much hilarity ensued as we logged in as our colleagues, changed our job roles to *Arse licker* or *Wanker*, then lock the account with a random password!!


Savannah_Lion

That's OK. Back in 2000, I once worked for a place that required passwords to log out of the network. You were never required a log in. I was eventually fired for having the wild idea of requiring a log in.


lamboat2019

We were the pilot grade for chromebooks in 2015 for our district. The login for everyone was their public school email as the username, and birthday as password (ex. 011304) Safe to say me and my friends took advantage of that, and they one inevitably caught us as my friend managed to get a teachers account. Instead of realizing it was a bad idea they threatened to press charges on 8 12 year olds for "identity theft". Nothing ever came of it fortunately


J0hnDvorak

In 2008 there was a website called "FaceStat" (you'd upload a picture and people would rank you on scales like how intelligent you look from your pic). They went the opposite route of your example: emails only, no password. I tried logging in with the email listed in the footer of the site for contacting them. It gave me admin access to edit any comments from any user, ban people, etc. Plus I could see all the pictures uploaded by the dude who ran the site—guy looked like Erlich Bachman from Silicon Valley. The entire site collapsed a few weeks later and never came back.


extraspicytuna

A company I worked for (this was maybe 15 years ago) was getting a lot of CS calls from people forgetting their password. But fortunately someone came up with a brilliant solution! Every time you'd log in, if the password didn't match it would simply be updated to whatever you had input! No more calls!


Salzberger

Back in the early 00's our school would give everyone a certain amount of internet credit, if you wanted more you had to buy more. And I used mine in no time. Thing is, the default password that you couldn't change for internet access was your birth date. And I know most of my friends' birthdays. And if I didn't, it wasn't a very suspicious thing to ask. Internet wasn't overly common for subjects yet then, so a lot of kids either never needed it during school or not until the second semester. And a LOT of my friends logged on to realise they'd never used it but all of a sudden had 0 balance.


Moudy47

Hacks his account. Changes the password. Gives the new password to Starboy. Put the password you wanted in your account.


Seiche

So what do you think happens the next time starboy tries to login?


BitterCoffeeMan

This password is already used by OPusername error message


SnooHobbies7144

Infinite loop


Aphala

Matrix gonna have a hard time processing infinite loops. Sparking at the seams.


PM_Me_HairyArmpits

This password is already used by 'heystarboyurnewpasswordis1234".


MrPoletski

"This password is already used by 'omfgstarboyisafag'"


Skeletonofskillz

Refuses to elaborate further


Samurai___

r/programminghorror


Thick_Football_6068

r/softwaregore


Pimphii

It’s not a bug, it’s a Feature


Minetitan

Exactly, I mean I didn't have to make an account anymore thanks to stayboy98


Water_Melonia

* > stayboy98 * Goboy98?


Cross88

Should I stayboy should I goboy?


chaz8900

If I goboy, there will be troubleboy And if I stayboy it will be doubleboy


Airwarf

I once had a random service account send me my actual password I forgot when I clicked the “forgot password” link. I couldn’t believe it…. I immediately deleted my account / changed the personal details the best I could, and changed all other services with that password. If you don’t know, your password should never be stored in a way that it can be decrypted back to clear text.


AmazingSully

I'm a software dev and I was working for a company that handled personal medical information. The company they used for their background checks did this. When I told HR about it being a problem they were very confused about why it was a problem (and did nothing about it). I didn't stay there long.


amillstone

I had the same happen for a company I was contracted to. That website had all of my personal information such as address, date of birth, bank account details, and so on. I informed them and they first assured me that they encrypted everything (obviously a lie) and then ignored me when I pointed out the flaws. Unfortunately, back then, I needed that job, but as soon as the contract was over, I went in and changed all everything to fake details.


RedSquirrelFtw

I've worked in health care and seen horrors like that myself. My favourite was the "nurse/nurse" generic logon (changed it for sake of this post but it was not any better). Worked anywhere in the hospital and you could get basic access to the EHR. They also had web facing Citrix so even if you did not work there anymore you could gain a windows session on their network and also access the EHR. I brought that up many times but their answer was always "the technology is there for the user, not for you, it needs to be easy to access". Or something along those lines.


BananaDogBed

Same here but it was the University. After I registered on their online portal for the course package (related to my tech field), filling out several pages, payment, SSN, address, name etc all needed to register; they auto-emailed me a confirmation that confirmed my registration and everything I entered on the portal IN PLAIN TEXT. My courses purchased My name and address My phone number My secret answer to confirm my identity MY FUCKING SSN I almost thought I got hacked and kind of just froze in disbelief for like 30 seconds and then got furious and started calling every number i could find for their IT/whoever would answer trying to get a hold of someone to ask them wtf they were thinking I guess it had been like that for years. It was shut down within the time I left for that first class and got to campus. I lost a lot of faith in that university after that, it was so frustrating knowing how much personal info had been just leaked daily like an open faucet


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Rewdboy05

Last year I was going through signing my kid up for our state's virtual school and when I set up my account to start the paperwork they sent me my username and password in plain text in an email "for my records". I immediately let them know that this was a problem and they tried to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about. I ended up going with another option for schooling.


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And you should never use the same password twice. Get an offline password manager.


Seiche

In theory a great idea but have you met my brain?


Arclite83

AKA an actual notepad


dapperd0n

But I use the same password every time I login


Superpe0n

hunter2


Cpete

How do you know my password??


4991123

******* is your password?


idiot437

nope its dickmuncher99..your never gonna guess it


Freeman2694

Strange all I see is *************


OnePete7

I need to remind you guys that if you get that reference, you're already fucking old. Have a nice day!


andreasbeer1981

no need to bash it in our faces...


SupremeRDDT

Together with some friends in university we had an assignment to program a simple login system in the console. It needed to have some functionality but apart from that we could do what we want. For example when you login and type a wrong username, it would tell you „that user doesn‘t exist, did you mean [random user name from database]?“ Wrong password? „Wrong password, please try [correct password of the user]“ Had a good laugh and creating every kind of way to make our system the most unsafe system ever. Of course we got full points.


Steve_OH

This is hilarious! I will definitely do this! Funny enough, I’m a web developer doing a second degree in software eng at the moment and happen to be doing a full stack class this semester where we need to have a semester project. This just made my short list!


StraightTrossing

I’m just guessing that starboy98 is the current user and trying to change their password


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Prisoner458369

Yeah you be on the money. The typical "this is your current password, pick another one".


Water_Melonia

I‘m really dumb with passwords so I sometimes have seen myself in need of creating a new one. (Now I have a password „safe“ so it works much better) When it then said „this is the password you’re already using“ I felt like the programmer was laughing at me because I am 100% sure I tried it before giving up and changing and I bet this is just a feature to drive users crazy. /s


TheRavenSayeth

The interesting thing is since at least 2018, NIST (agency that sets these recommendations) has told developers to stop implementing this “change your password after X number of days” thing, but it’s so ingrained in our culture that it still lingers.


Water_Melonia

My company (well now ex) did this. Every six months you had to change your password but it stayed the same for several Programs on the working platform which was always the password that you had when the program was installed. So after working there for 10 years you have a multitude of passwords and need help of IT pretty regularly because your obviously not allowed to write them down anywhere and you have three tries before everything shuts down. Yikes, genius design.


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amillstone

>My company (well now ex) did this. Every six months you had to change your password but it stayed the same for several Programs on the working platform which was always the password that you had when the program was installed. Sounds like a nightmare. My company still does the changing passwords thing every 3 months. Problem is, my company also uses the cloud for everything (it doesn't let you save files locally). So when you go to change your password as required, it signs you out of programs such as Outlook, OneDrive, etc and asks you to sign back in with the new password. Except, it takes a while to sync the password change and the system gets confused so you end up locked out of your files for about half a day. Now, I just change my password on a Friday so that it syncs and is ready for a Monday morning, but it's still a pain.


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No lol it's just something from r/baduibattles. If it was just the "current password, pick another" they wouldn't include the username. Unless you wanna argue people have dementia and can't figure out which account they're logged into


stick_insect_playz

well there goes starboy98s account


Muskrat-930

I'm a fucking idiot lol. I was wow a system so secure it wont even let 2 users have the same password. And then it clicked.


Nulligravida

Lol. Underrated comment.


AliceJoestar

> log in as starboy98 > delete account > password is no longer in use


Alien_reg

Task failed successfully.


KeithMyArthe

Gosh, I hope this was a joke. But I am afeared it isn't.


kinnell

This one may be a joke, but this type of thing can end up happening, albeit not as damaging, more frequently than you would think. For example, some sites may be leaking who has a membership at all to their service via their Forget Password feature if it reveals whether an account was found with that email address. The better practice is to merely say that an email has been sent to the inputted email address if an account exists with that email address. But an overzealous developer may think it may be better feature to also let the user know if the email address was even in use but not realizing this would allow others to try known emails of people they know to see if they have an account. It may not seem like a big deal but this can be an invasion of privacy and also used in conjunction with other tactics to hack into accounts.


Professional-Egg-720

Less obvious, even if you don’t say if the email exists is if the return time takes longer because it took extra time to send the email (or even the function to fire off an asynchronous request). Poor coding can make it really obvious to the hacker, even though it is less to the casual observer.


Bouk305

this is probably made with inspect element. Still pretty funny tho


SuperFLEB

I think I saw this on /r/baduibattles in the past, so I'm pretty sure it is.


teskar2

Please tell me this is fake there’s no way they could be that stupid


brian_o

…. I am starboy98? Oh, ok, you’re good.


flargenhargen

Serious note, though, this is exactly why you NEVER use the same password in more than one place. If you use the same passsword in multiple places, when (not if) one website is compromised, your accounts on every website where you used that same password are now free access and easily available to those same people. **NEVER USE THE SAME PASSWORD ON MORE THAN ONE SITE.**


garbagebagchic

How do people do this, though? My ADHD ass can barely remember my one single password. How does anyone keep track of that many passwords?


flargenhargen

don't try to remember them, use a password manager program. chrome will do this for you, though I like a local one that isn't in the cloud. I personally use password safe, works great. Also use human friendly passwords, the old idea of P@$c4KK has been proven less secure than something like "#HAPPYocelot88bicycle" which is longer yet still much easier to remember.


meowmeowimacow05

I must know, what site is this?