Here's how you find out your Online Infosec Name! Take your date of birth and use it to pick the first and last names from this tablepic.twitter.com/SRcWIs0Sg8
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Registering for something online and they demand a date of birth? Make up a fake one. You might need it for security reasons later so keep a record of it in the same place as your passwords
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Shoot, does a cryptographically secure random birth date generator exist? Do I need to develop one?
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Well here's my attempt, I don't know if it's secure though https://qntm.org/files/dob/dob.html …
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Would your generator follow a uniform distribution of birth dates or would you try to mimic the actual distribution?
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That's an intensely good question. If we mimic the actual distribution, we're just helping the attacker guess more easily. So I think uniform...
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If you make up the username of the thing to be a famous character you could do a dob of that character (or your best guess)
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That's the second thing the attacker's going to try!
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i was setting up autopay for something over the phone and they asked for a day of the month and i said "uh, hang on a sec" and did randint(1,31)
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I use the info from https://randomuser.me/ to fill out those forms.
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Most forms use the built-in HTML5 Date, which is smart enough to not let you select invalid dates.
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I use the 1st of January
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