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Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris"
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
Will he brute force his way in?
In Soviet Russia, passwords ask for Chuck Norris.
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It's not Facebook's fault: it's not like they actually set the master password to "Chuck Norris".
The real WTF is that "Chuck Norris" works as a password into anything: Facebook, your online bank account, your sister's pants...
Chuck Norris types in his name as the Username and a program never has the chance to ask for a Password.
Chuck Norris doesn't need a password, he just round-house kicks the keyboard into submission.
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So this guy shot Chuck Norris in the face with a shotgun, and then he ended up in prison, because murder is illegal.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I think you meant because suicide is illegal.
...can actually type ******** into any system and login successfully.
You never expect irony, do you?
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I wonder, what it is now... "Angelina Jolie"? "Bruce Willis"?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
At least the master password wasn't something weak like "Rick Moranis." By using Chuck Norris, you can tell Facebook was taking security seriously.
or else!
You don't have any friends.
in fact, a little known subplot in the whole drama last week over china hacking into google email servers is that chinese intel knew the master password for gmail was "chuck norris"
problem was, when the chinese spies typed chuck norris into the human rights activists' email logins, the password itself would jump off the computer screen, hit the spy with five roundhouse kicks to the face, then smash their keyboard into dust just by giving it a hard stare
so the chinese government had no other choice but to hire hackers to break into the accounts. because even when they hired seven of the greatest kung fu masters and the most proficient in the eighteen arms of wushu in all of china to stand by while the spy logged in, plus jet li, plus jackie chan, and plus the reanimated cyborg admantium zombie of bruce lee, the chuck norris password still roundhouse kicked all of them into submission
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
that prison's name was Chuck Norris
^ Chuck Norris must have gotten to him
doesn't sleep.... he stalks your facebook photos
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Don't be silly, hunter2 hasn't worked for ages!
Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger
... Paris Hilton. So anyone can get in.
Have gnu, will travel.
Don't look now, but you just propositioned a dude for sex...
If 24 starred Chuck Norris, it would have been called "1".
And most of that time would have been Chuck just taking his time to get there...
-JJS
Yeah? Well Chuck Norris says he's keeping it.
No, I used a novel new approach to acquiring information — I read the article.
I'll go fetch the torches, guys.
Can Chuck Norris create a password SO strong that he, himself, cannot crack it?????
Yes.
And then he can crack it.
Chuck Norris is the perfect password it is impossible to hack or brute force; but it can also beat the crap out of any other password out there; he is the Irresistible Force and the Immovable Object.
I don't see the problem here.
Q: What is the strongest pasword in the world?
A: "Chuck Norris"
I lost my sig.
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