An error occurred during a connection to mostsecure.pw. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
Just me? Is this just too secure™ for Firefox' liking?
Whenever you type that, all I see is "1-7-3-4-6-7-3-2-1-4-7-6-Charlie-3-2-7-8-9-7-7-7-6-4-3-Tango-7-3-2-Victor-7-3-1-1-7-8-8-8-7-3-2-4-7-6-7-8-9-7-6-4-3-7-6
I can't see this without claiming the nerd cred of being the first to identify it as the password Data uses to lock out the computer in the ST:TNG episode "Brothers".
For extra credit, I will point out (which you may not know EGreg?) that the password he speaks verbally, and the password that appears on the display visually, are NOT the same and differ by a few digits near the end, a small mistake in production.
I don't know how safe it is to enter my password into a site I've never heard of before... Not that I'm accusing them of it, but this is the perfect setup for a phishing scam.
I'm not really a security expert, but wouldn't it be harder for hacker to notice the hack if you leave it and wisely change the first letter to upper/lower case?
I'm going to let this one slide, because most of us are not working today for various reasons, but I must note, I've never seen this side of GitHub. I probably spend too much time cloistered in work projects to notice.
Your snark is noted. However, unlike those that come here to delay their day's tasks, I come here to learn and be exposed to new things. As such, humor has never been a quality I seek from HN, and it detracts from the point of being here, for me.
Heyyy, it's that guy who looks down on those of us who don't use our real names!
I remember because you showed a similarly poor attitude in another thread. That attitude was so out of line with what I expect from HN that your username was seared in my mind :)
Why can't we seek to learn and have a laugh now and then as well?
Your profile also says "Commentors with novelty usernames should not expect responses.". What if someone with a novelty username teaches you something and you have a question to further your learning. You won't respond?
So, they want the password off the list, instead of changing it to something (much much much) more secure? Some variant of "battery horse staple and correct", right?
Look, we all intuitively get that it's a bad idea and it is definitely funny. But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices?
The security community I grew up with was welcoming and understanding, and it sparked an interest I never would have realized otherwise.
The user has a large number of GitHub commits and the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work...
I feel comfortable assuming the original PR is a joke.
As further evidence that the assafnativ probably understands trolling, it's worth mentioning that he wrote the article The Making of the Kosher Phone [0]. So he knows how to troll Orthodox Jews if nothing else.
> the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work...
The plural of anecdote is not data, but I have first hand experience with someone who can make a pull request but doesn't understand password best practices at all.
Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still...
I know people who wrote code for their thesis in Python but can't grasp why indentation matters. You'd be surprised by what people do and don't know.
I've worked with a programmer on a project who could not do basic algebra (4x + 1 = 5, solve for x), and would outsource any math to stackoverflow to get answers in his specific language. Those answers were usually incorrect because he didn't know how to phrase his questions correctly.
That was horrifying to realize that the person writing the front end for an ecommerce application not only could not calculate tax, but would brag about how he doesn't need to know basic math.
It doesn't make a whole ton of sense because you'd still need to know when to un-indent in order to get out of a conditional block. IDEs can't read your mind.
I had an answer typed up, but it felt like picking on them rather than explaining the issue. Text is hard.
After submitting changes that started 10 indents past the previous line, and had little to no rhyme or reason for subsequent indentation, we asked them to reformat and resubmit. When it became clear that they could not, we reviewed the code itself separately from the indentation and reformatted it ourselves.
Multiple co-workers sat next to them to try to explain how to line things up vertically, but they were unable to do so without said help.
This was over the course of about two weeks in which we were instructed to try to bring them onboard some of our projects. Both our and their projects at the time were frontend web projects.
I have not looked at any of their code outside what was submitted to our side, but I do know they are praised for the quality of their work by management.
> Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still...
You can make these sorts of trivial changes just by clicking around the GitHub web UI, I could probably tell a 12 year old how to make a trivial change like this, regardless of their coding expertise https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repos...
> But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices?
I am not sure the issue poster really uses that password...
[Disclaimer seeing as the original joke was missed by many - this site link is totally tongue in cheek too. DON'T use the suggested password]
[0] - https://mostsecure.pw/