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Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password (gizmodo.com)
A seemingly complex set of characters like "ji32k7au4a83" is a very common password among users, it turns out. From a report: This interesting bit of trivia comes from self-described hardware/software engineer Robert Ou, who recently asked his Twitter followers if they could explain why this seemingly random string of numbers has been seen by Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over a hundred times.
Have I Been Pwned is an aggregator that was started by security expert Troy Hunt to help people find out if their email or personal data has shown up in any prominent data breaches. One service it offers is a password search that allows you to check if your password has shown up in any data breaches that are on the radar of the security community. In this case, "ji32k7au4a83" has been seen by HIBP in 141 breaches. Several of Ou's followers quickly figured out the solution to his riddle. The password is coming from the Zhuyin Fuhao system for transliterating Mandarin. The reason it's showing up fairly often in a data breach repository is because "ji32k7au4a83" translates to English as "my password."
Have I Been Pwned is an aggregator that was started by security expert Troy Hunt to help people find out if their email or personal data has shown up in any prominent data breaches. One service it offers is a password search that allows you to check if your password has shown up in any data breaches that are on the radar of the security community. In this case, "ji32k7au4a83" has been seen by HIBP in 141 breaches. Several of Ou's followers quickly figured out the solution to his riddle. The password is coming from the Zhuyin Fuhao system for transliterating Mandarin. The reason it's showing up fairly often in a data breach repository is because "ji32k7au4a83" translates to English as "my password."
I have the same combination on my luggage!
"your password" instead of "my password". GENIUS!
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How exactly does "ji32k7au4a83" translates to english? Is it base64-encoded or something?
Try reading an article for once in your life you miserable piece of shit.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Pas...
12345: This password has been seen 2333232 times before.
123456: This password has been seen 23174662 times before.
That's right: there's nearly ten times as many people using 123456 than 12345, so the password used in Spaceballs is actually the more secure one of the two!
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I may be a piece of shit, but I never watched Les misérables, you insensitive clod.
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The original mandarin translates to english as "my password".
The original mandarin character sequence is coded in the database as "ji32k7au4a83", it is a pidgin transcoding schema. It is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but I forgot the name of that transliteration above.
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I changed all my passwords to correcthorsebatterystaple
Now you're telling me I should change it to this?
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Lately I haven't been able to even parse some summaries but with this one I get a cute story and don't even need to read TFA unless I want details.
It's like 1999 again.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
What makes it even more mind blowing is that it LOOKS like a password you'd randomly type by bashing a bunch of letter and number keys.
k92jf8j2ih22
f8y23jk29ugwe
ji32k7au4a83
It doesn't even stand out!
Such an interesting world we live in.
"MAGA"
Oh no — pwned! This password has been seen 62 times before
"MAGA bich"
Good news — no pwnage found!
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Because people usually turn off IME edit for password fields. For one thing, a lot of systems reject exotic characters in passwords. Also, if you need to log in from a system that doesn't have a suitable Chinese IME you're screwed if you need Chinese characters. So they turn off IME edit, select US ANSI keyboard layout, and type the keys they would for an easy-to-remember Chinese phrase. It end up looking like random letters/numbers in English.
By getting software that makes my keyboard try to type Mandarin, picking a simple passphrase, and typing that in, I can get a password that looks like random garbage in both English and Mandarin, and I don't need to store shit in a password manager unless I REALLY want multiple passphrases.
Zhu yin fu hao is the Chinese keyboard super-imposed on the ASCII keyboard.
Ji3 is u o = wo3
2k7 is de e = de
Au4 is mo yi 4 = mi4
A83 is mo a 3 = ma3
Wo3 U+6211 is the first person pronoun
De U+7684 is the possessive
Mi4 U+5BC6 means secret
Ma3 U+78BC means number or code
Taken together, "wo de mima" translates to "my password".
The number 3 after a Mandarin word stands for the third tone. The number 4 stands for the fourth tone. The particle de is unstressed. There is no tone on an unstressed word
Never read the story, that is the same as renting out your brain to whoever pays for the slavertisements.