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Password Reuse Tool Makes It Easy To ID Vulnerable Accounts On Other Sites (arstechnica.com)
Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica: Over the past few months, a cluster of megabreaches has dumped account credentials for a mind-boggling 642 million accounts into the public domain, where they can then be used to compromise other accounts that are protected by the same password. Now, there's software that can streamline this vicious cycle by testing for reused passcodes on Facebook and other popular sites. Shard, as the command-line tool has been dubbed, is designed to allow end users to test if a password they use for one site is also used on Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram, its creator, Philip O'Keefe, told Ars. The security researcher said he developed the tool after discovering that the randomly generated eight-character password protecting several of his accounts was among the more than 177 million LinkedIn passwords that were leaked in May. "I used that password as a general password for many services," he wrote in an e-mail. "It was a pain to remember which sites it was shared and to change them all. I use a password manager now."
How many people in the US have to die before we realize that private ownership of guns is terrible idea?
You don't need a gun. If you have one, you can dispose of it at any police station, no questions asked.
If you're referring to the shooting in MI that's all over the news right now, this had nothing to do with private gun ownership. A criminal defendant in a courthouse grabbed a gun from a bailiff and shot two court officers.
Nice try.
Facebook records the passwords used in your failed login attempts. If you forgot which of your passwords is used on a given site, you are potentially divulging your passwords to many sites. Facebook may not be alone in this.
That really seems to depend on the state. In Arizona at least, there were 27 white guys shot by police last year. And yet, there was just 1 black person shot.
If we follow black lives matter logic, then police are clearly discriminating against white people in my state, and we should start a white lives matter movement.
Or if we simply follow rational logic instead, then we clearly see different behavior patterns in different racial groups in different geographical regions.
Arizona has some of the most lax gun laws, by the way. For example, you don't need a permit to conceal carry here, and there are practically no limits on the type of weapon you can carry so long as it doesn't break federal rules. You can however sidestep federal rules here if you mill your own weapon.