Edward Snowden did something very similar to this while working as a sysadmin in order to obtain access to many systems he otherwise would not have access to. It was internally dubbed the "password roundup."
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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... This is a 'which coworkers are idiots?' test... right?
... Right?
Yes, unfortunately it's the person who put up the sign who failed the test.
And then there's me, when my company signed up all up for cyber security training to identify scams, I assumed it was a scam and deleted it...
Top tip guys, when you sign your staff up for this shit, tell them first.
My company stresses to always be vigilant for phishing scams but their test emails are the only ones that I ever receive. That’s a good thing though because they always get plenty of people.
I wanna change my account password from 12345 to 54321, so it's different from my boss' luggage
I wish I made enough to afford luggage with five digit combinations...
I feel like this would be in a video game where the devs had to put a puzzle but didn't want to
I'd like to change my password from hunter to hunter2
From 6 to 7 asterisks? That doesn't make sense.
Exactly! Just 7 *'s.
Who's even going to guess that? No one. Even if someone hacks it? Still looks protected!
Literally unbreakable!
No, he clearly wants to change it from ****** to *******.
For the record, a far more secure password would be ********, because it has a * in it which some websites require
strange, I only see ******. I thought ****** is a pretty good password tho, no?
Hunted then?
Facebook is Bad, mmmkay
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