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Bad Password Allowed Swedish Watergate

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-why-my-password-is-swordfish dept.

fredr1k writes "The Swedish Watergate reported earlier this week was possible because of the usage of terrible weak passwords (Swedish) and a not functional IT policy. The Swedish newspaper Göterborgs-Posten reports the source of the password was a partymember who's account was "sigge" with password "sigge" and was "stolen" in march this year. Seasoned Slashdot readers would call it "a-not-so-hard-to-crack-password". "

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  1. In English? by neonprimetime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know what a bigger problem is? Posting an article that's not in English. Here's a brief article from the Inquirer, but in English at least.