Idea: there needs to be a word that indicates a preventable causal relationship of a human behavior with an outcome that explicitly rules out legal/moral culpability. Such as, if Old Joe uses 12qw21erty as his password and hackers pwn his everything, one could express the 1/
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entirely reasonable uncontroversial opinion that using 12qw21erty as your password (and then reusing the damn thing on everything) is a suboptimal course of action without implying that Old Joe is somehow "guilty" or "complicit" in the pwning that has befallen him 2/
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@chaosprime because this kind of thing seems like vaguely your kind of thing3 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @0K_ultra @chaosprime
I may be thick, but why's that a bad password?
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Replying to @andrewjlockley @0K_ultra
it could be worse, it's not great because it's a dictionary word with numeric interpolations and not very long; reuse amplifies the degree to which that's a problem in addition to being terrible in and of itself
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Replying to @chaosprime @andrewjlockley
also, it's not just a "dictionary word", it's a "qwerty" and thus its permutations have higher priority in any "smart bruteforce" dictionary / dictionary-generator
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Replying to @0K_ultra @chaosprime
I'd say that's less likely than the first 3k dictionary words
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Replying to @andrewjlockley @chaosprime
well, there are many words with even higher expected priorities, but qwerty-derivatives have terrifying staying power.
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often-used-in-passwords words are more dictionary than dictionary words
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