this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

... This is a 'which coworkers are idiots?' test... right?

... Right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

Yes, unfortunately it's the person who put up the sign who failed the test.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago) (1 children)

Half the people here immediately deleted some survey about the work climate or something done by an external provider and didn't even question it because it was so obviously a phishing mail.

I just ignored it thinking the same. Until my scrum master told me that we should please all answer that survey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

They think the security companies are their ally?

We were born in the scams. Moulded by them. I didn't see a genuine banking email until I was already a man.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wanna change my account password from 12345 to 54321, so it's different from my boss' luggage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I wish I made enough to afford luggage with five digit combinations...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago

I feel like this would be in a video game where the devs had to put a puzzle but didn't want to

[–] [email protected] 77 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to change my password from hunter to hunter2

[–] [email protected] 58 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

From 6 to 7 asterisks? That doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Exactly! Just 7 *'s.

Who's even going to guess that? No one. Even if someone hacks it? Still looks protected!

Literally unbreakable!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

strange, I only see ******. I thought ****** is a pretty good password tho, no?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Hunted then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Facebook is Bad, mmmkay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago