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New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the change-early-change-often dept.

wiredmikey writes "A new password cracking tool released today instantly reveals cached passwords to websites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail."

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  1. Re:Prettier Tool, Old Exploit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What? That's the same combination as my luggage.

    It's about goddamn time these lame-ass repetitive older than hell jokes are starting to get the Redundant mods they deserve. If this happened more consistently I might even start browsing slashdot above -1.

    In summary, screw you Cryacin for posting a repetitive meme that lowers the signal-to-noise ratio. If you want to attention whore, take estrogen pills, grow tits, and flash people with them.

  2. Re:Prettier Tool, Old Exploit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Which is why I didn't belabor it, or introduce it out of context. I was pointing out that Firefox's scheme is only as secure as the master password you choose. The particular bad password I chose for the Spaceballs reference on the hope that it might get a chuckle or trigger a brief moment of pleasant nostalgia

    It did get a chuckle or a brief moment of pleasant nostalgia... when posted the first several thousand times to the first several hundred Slashdot stories. Its time has passed. It has now gotten old. It is no longer funny though it once was. Now it's just repetitive noise. Now that it has achieved that status, ANY repetition of it qualifies as "belaboring it". What part of this is so difficult to understand, exactly?

    forgetting that on /., every joke must be beaten to death and explained, rehashed, insulted, re-explained by someone who thinks the insult came due to unfamiliarity, etc., until all traces of humor vanish.

    Yeah because of people like you who don't understand this concept of "it's gotten old and is now just repetitive noise". The explanations are a possibly misguided attempt to get you to listen to reason, to try convincing you to abandon this strange idea of yours that a joke is immortal and never loses its ability to amuse despite the fact that its intended audience has already seen it literally thousands of times and furthermore, is able to predict which stories it will be posted in. Damned right that all traces of humor vanish when you do things this way.

  3. Re:Prettier Tool, Old Exploit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, you must be a real hit at parties...

    Lighten up, Francis.

    I AM a hit at parties because i don't need to repeat old jokes in order to have a sense of humor. Instead I can make my own jokes and off-the-cuff remarks that amuse and entertain because it's something new and original. I like that better than telling everybody to lighten up as though it's their fault that my idea of "humor" consists of repeating the same old shit all the time and acting surprised when it isn't very funny.