Comments on: liturgical & church passwords

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:24:45 +0000

Fr Peter, you made my morning! LOL!

By: Fr Peter

Fr Peter — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:22:34 +0000

Sorry to disappoint, but Etcumspiri220 only works if you are an English speaker … zweizweizero not quite the same!

Great idea, though!

By: Vincent Murphy

Vincent Murphy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:50:21 +0000

For some reason I was expecting some vague reference to ‘the keys’! Very amusing
[murphy@vincent hacks]$ nohup ./bruteforce.sh -fn bosco -ln peters -dn .liturgy.co.nz | mail -s “Found it” &
errr….

By: @LaureeAshcom

@LaureeAshcom — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:33:38 +0000

bosco

you are always entertaining… my tags would be sarcasm and humor (spelled in the american way)

emoticons… hmmm :~)

lauree

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:16:48 +0000

Like you, Mark, I wonder when Jesus begins, “There was a man who…”, or “A man was going down from…” whether Jesus also is using a bit of fabulous fictive frivolous fable to add flavour to the feature – and he didn’t add tags to give that point away. Nor did the gospel writers add emoticons ;-(

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:16:00 +0000

I wonder if the “cracked the pope’s login” part of the story is a bit of fabulous fictive frivolous fable to add flavour to the feature? Anyway, I see you can google the “EtCumSpiri220″ password mentioned, and I wouldn’t really like to see anyone use passwords that return results from google (and, of course, certainly not a dictionary word). The problem with that Microsoft password checker in the link above is that it does not take into account well-known (or otherwise guessable) passwords. I remember telling a group of secretaries about good and bad passwords, and when I mentioned people often use something like the name of their cat, one person looked very embarrassed!

I hope everyone has read: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21password.html by now. I’d just like to add: avoid passwords that are suggested by the context, not just your account name backwards with a few digits added, but also theological (even Latin) phrases in the context of church-related systems, for example. And don’t re-use your most important passwords on other, less secure, systems.

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:16 +0000

Lauree I hope you noticed my tags – but I’m not sure about your tone as it has neither tags nor an emoticon

I’m still waiting for a creative one using 666

By: Schley Cox

Schley Cox — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:10:02 +0000

How about Bosco123? That sounds pretty solid.
Generally, if I can remember my password then it is not strong enough.

By: Frugal Dougal

Frugal Dougal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:23:36 +0000

This makes me think of a scheme over here in England to put medical records on an internet-based scheme, which has one very basic flaw: if it’s on the web, it can be cracked.

By: @LaureeAshcom

@LaureeAshcom — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:09:04 +0000

several questions come to mind…

1. do you not have enough real work to do?

2. who else have you been trying to hack?

3. has the pope changed his password yet?

blessings… i think…

By: Shellie

Shellie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:01:42 +0000

Cool, now we can read that Third Secret!

By: Sam Jarman

Sam Jarman — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:20:58 +0000

More importantly, how did you crack them? Please tell me! Cheers!

By: Kath

Kath — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:12:25 +0000

Interesting! Now how did you do that?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:07:23 +0000

I didn’t know hacking was a pastime of yours!