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Elfich
2012-01-27 08:40:03 AM
Change the combination on my luggage!
 
LDM90
2012-01-27 08:43:19 AM
Little known trick: Type in your fark password and it changes it to *********

Pretty cool huh?
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 08:46:21 AM
There was lots of interesting bugs in early password implementations. For example, on one system (TOPS-20?) the system checked the password a character at a time. You could write a program that presented a password string that crossed a page boundary. If you got a page fault, the password was good up to the page boundary. If you got a security error, one of the first characters was wrong. Exploting this bug translates an exponential guessing problem into a linear guessing problem.
 
Rent is too damn high
2012-01-27 08:47:28 AM
LDM90: Little known trick: Type in your fark password and it changes it to *********

Pretty cool huh?

ilovemidgettrannies

hey, it didn't work!
 
ArcadianRefugee
2012-01-27 08:54:38 AM
Rent is too damn high: LDM90: Little known trick: Type in your fark password and it changes it to *********

Pretty cool huh?

ilovemidgettrannies

hey, it didn't work!

It only works if your password is hunter2, like mine.

See? Ha ha! Weird, huh?
 
Terlis
2012-01-27 08:54:58 AM
hypokritical.com
 
sarah_t_s
2012-01-27 08:55:49 AM
Rent is too damn high: LDM90: Little known trick: Type in your fark password and it changes it to *********

Pretty cool huh?

ilovemidgettrannies

hey, it didn't work!

Works fine I just see *****'s lots of them. It just doesn't asterisk your password when you look at it see?

hunter2
 
Happy Hours [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 09:16:10 AM
But my password really is all asterisks.
 
Slu
2012-01-27 09:18:18 AM
Could that article have been any more boring? I thought it was going to describe the authentication system that was first widely used. Or give some neat little trivia on what the first password is thought to be. But instead it was boring.
 
Oysterman
2012-01-27 09:31:13 AM
********

/horrible person
 
unlikely [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 09:37:55 AM
0000000
 
DVDave
2012-01-27 09:59:28 AM
ƒ@ЯҞ
 
MoronLessOff
2012-01-27 10:01:48 AM
Great, now I have to change the combination on my luggage.
 
Slesfo
2012-01-27 10:52:12 AM
C00lp@SSw0rd
 
Slesfo
2012-01-27 10:55:07 AM
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO PUT THOSE INTO ASTERISKS!! WHAT DO I DO?? CRAP CRAP CRAP
 
Clash City Farker
2012-01-27 11:21:27 AM
Thats the kind of password a moron uses on his luggage.
 
MoronLessOff
2012-01-27 12:16:22 PM
MoronLessOff: Great, now I have to change the combination on my luggage.

Clash City Farker: Thats the kind of password a moron uses on his luggage.

*Hyuck!
 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 01:17:23 PM
A knowledge-based system "would have required storing a fair bit of information about a person, and nobody wanted to devote many machine resources to this authentication stuff."

Gee, ya think? The CTSS was a 32K machine.

[CSB] My dad was a programmer in the mid 60's and claims to be the 1st victim of the "Y2K" problem.

On 1/1/70, several of the jobs he'd written years before crashed because the 1 byte date field he'd used zeroed out. He fixed it by moving to a 2 byte date... he says he briefly thought about using 4 bytes but didn't want to waste the memory and figured there was no way that those same programs would still be in use 30 years later. [/CSB]
 
Happy Hours [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 05:12:03 PM
Eddie Adams from Torrance: [CSB] My dad was a programmer in the mid 60's and claims to be the 1st victim of the "Y2K" problem.

On 1/1/70, several of the jobs he'd written years before crashed because the 1 byte date field he'd used zeroed out. He fixed it by moving to a 2 byte date... he says he briefly thought about using 4 bytes but didn't want to waste the memory and figured there was no way that those same programs would still be in use 30 years later. [/CSB]

Was he storing the date in ASCII?

A byte is 2 hexadecimal digits storing values from 0-255.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 08:30:08 PM
Eddie Adams from Torrance

In the 1990s a popular program suddenly stopped working all over campus. Word arrived that it was a worldwide problem. That was the day that the Unix timestamp hit 2^32/6. The program was multiplying time by 3 or 6. A little arithmetic and a call to ctime says it must have been the evening of September 6, 1992.
 
Fark Me To Tears [TotalFark]
2012-01-27 10:18:32 PM
Happy Hours: But my password really is all asterisks.

No, I tried that. When I typed in all asterisks, "STARTREK" appeared on the screen.
 
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