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RE: Police secret password blunder


From: "Kane Lightowler" <Kane.Lightowler () contentsecurity com au>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:46:53 +1000

Yeah its not rocket science to find it thanks to the SMH


Regards,
Kane

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Boar [mailto:BlueBoar () thievco com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2006 3:38 PM
To: Kane Lightowler
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Police secret password blunder

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.ns
w.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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