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1. Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:46 JST Moon

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   • 『VRISKA』
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   @pro @vriska in the 1990s i bought a copy of 2600 and it had a hack you could do on hp-ux where there was literally just an open network port that was directly to the sound device. We had an entire lab of hp-ux machines at my university donated by hp.
   
   so i wrote a script to scan the network for every machine with that open port and piped a ulaw file of a dog barking to every machine. they couldn't figure out how to stop it so they had to beg everybody to get on the physical machines and turn down the speaker volume all the way.
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   • Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:52 JST Account: Computers

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     • 『VRISKA』
     @Moon @vriska One of the first systems that I worked on had 3-letter passwords. I was an undergrad back then, mind. So, after some snooping around I found that it kept them in a 16-bit word. That immediately made me think about Radix-50 encoding, and after some quick cryptoanalysis in Fortran IV, I found that the encryption was a rotation left by 5 bits. The master password was "WOW". Using this information, I went around universities in the city, penetrating student terminal rooms, and getting privileged access. For one of them, I forged a student ID by using a pencil and a piece of paper that I attached to my own ID with small chunks of bread in leu of removable adhesive. When the developers heard about this, they updated the system to keep 8-character passwords in a separate file, accessible with a special syscall, and modified all utilities of course.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:53 JST Moon

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     • 『VRISKA』
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     @pro @vriska my first real job out of college was on ibm aix machines and they only hashed the first eight letters of your password
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:54 JST Moon

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     • 『VRISKA』
     @vriska i have several hundred
   • Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:54 JST Account: Computers

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     • 『VRISKA』
     @Moon @vriska My "password manager" remembers 788 password entities, although not all of them are for websites. Some are for LUKS, some are for routers, etc. The first password it remembers is for "Java development", and the 2nd is for Avogato. It only had 8 characters! I put the manager in quotes because there's no manager. I just store passwords in files and encrypt them with PGP. This excludes my mobile devices, but fortunately I do not lead a mobile life. On the upside, large-scale intrusions at password managers do not affect me.
   • 『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 12:53:55 JST 『VRISKA』

     I still don't understand why anyone would ever need a password manager simply remember your passwords