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Re: Police secret password blunder


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:38:05 -0700

Kane Lightowler wrote:
There are also bizarre passwords such as "smellyundies", "enforcer", "chunder" and "crunchymaggots".

Yes, that does plug right into Google:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:-VwsFzhzp9AJ:customscripts.police.nsw.gov.au/news/jornal/jornalistlist.php%3Forder%3DFullName+crunchymaggots&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

(didn't work as all one query, I guess the list is paginated)

And look, looks like their default is password-matches-username.

                                                BB
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