Syrian President's Email Hacked… His Password Was 12345
from the kind-of-thing-an-idiot-would-have-on-his-luggage dept
Well, this is rather incredible. With the news that Anonymous hacked the offices of the Syrian President and dumped a ton of emails online… comes the news that the hack was insanely easy. Why? Because, apparently, the password was 12345. No joke. Of course, that’s considered one of the worst passwords of all time. And, as pointed out by Lauren Weinstein, this is the exact same password that was immortalized by Dark Helmet (the original one, rather than our local Techdirt hero) as being the stupidest password he’s ever heard — and the “kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!”
Filed Under: 12345, anonymous, email, hackers, passwords, syria
Comments on “Syrian President's Email Hacked… His Password Was 12345”
Ha, that scene from Spaceballs comes up a lot in IT-land (case study for clients).
Why is it...
Why is it you give people a list of passwords and say “DO NOT USE EVER” and your guaranteed to get some smart ass that immediately thinks “If everyone knows I’m not supposed to use it, then that means I should use it! BRILLIANT!” I?m sure there is a study where the size of the ego is proportional to the likelihood of the person coming to that ?special? conclusion.
My bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha detector just exploded.
Damn! Now I need to get a replacement!
Grunt. Hmm, next time I'll be smarter
54321
aaaaah!
why didnt anyone tell me my ass was so big?
You miss the point Mike, now Syria’s president can use the hacking as an excuse to clamp down the Internet and his people’s freedoms on the Internet even more!
The hackers fell for Syria’s trap!
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Somehow I don’t think he needs any excuses.
If he is butchering his own people why would he need an excuse to destroy their freedom?
$5 says the next time he gets hacked it’ll be password1
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Your on
my $5 is on 123456
also what currency are we using? American Dollars or Syrian Dollars?
He must have read the Sarah Palin Book on Secure passwords
So what you are saying is...
I should change my secret password for my bank account…got it…
13245
Oops…wrong window…
In that case it wasn’t really hacking… 😛
So what was in them?? Where’s the text?
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nah he will be more sneaky “1234”
next 1 “54321”
Damn
Now I need to change the password on my luggage.
Surely sir you mean “hunter2”
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Probably on pastebin
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Probably on pastebin
OK, so if I can’t use 1-2-3-4-5 can I use 5-4-3-2-1????
You know that someone out there will be thinking that. Perhaps not readers of this blog but someone will.
I’ve had customers tell me their password is their address number, their dog’s name, the same numbers they use on their debit and credit card accounts, their birthdays and their favourite of luckiest number. (No joke of a lie here one Chinese fella, new arrival, told me his password was 88888.)
No matter how many times we tell people to use secure passwords they don’t.
I daresay most of us are guilty of it too.
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His new password is “password”
Way to miss the obvious.
“dumped a ton of emails online.”
WHERE? LINK?
How do you even conceive of posting this story without the link?
All bets
All bets are on for guessing the password of Dark Helmet (TechDirt commenter and writer)! I’m going to guess “qwerty” :P.
The source doesn't say his password was 12345
Quote from the source:
“Seventy eight inboxes of Assad staffers were compromised, according to the newspaper, including several that used the password “12345,” one of the most-common but obviously least secure passwords possible.”
Nowhere’s written that HIS password was 12345.
Have Some Passwords ...
… courtesy of a generator of semi-pronounceable nonsense words I wrote a while back:
moonaixiad
leouoa
hoyt
hoespuyvbiou
iuwheou
iurdpuyaekh
ruyrachquao
aetuouaeiiad
gaesoyhpoa
choe
sawchjuyn
ghreylth
(your comment-submission system is very slow today)
Why is it...
People who don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” shouldn’t be judging the basic skills of others…
Why is it...
he has it right…
I can just imagine the security briefing for this.
“What’s your password going to be? We need to protect national seecrets.”
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5.”
“…But sir, that’s–“
“ONE. TWO. THREE. FOUR. FIVE.”
“….” *Exasperated sigh*
All bets
No, he’s a creative thinker. It’s probably “asdfg”
ALL OF YOU FUCKING SUCKS AT MAKING COMMENTS, YOU ASSBAGS
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nah, you have to have to have a password of at least 5 characters in syria.
In Mother Russia, at least 5 characters must have you for password.
If I had to guess, its actually one of his secretaries who had the password. I doubt very much the president personally opens outlook and types ‘12345’ every morning.
THAT'S AMAZING!!
That’s the same combination I have on my luggage!
He’s learned his lesson. Next time he’ll make his password 123456.
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Sorry, that came across as “*******”, what did you actually mean to type?
Why is it...
he uses ‘your’, ownership, for ‘you’re’, contraction so… no. no he doesn’t.
not on the grammar thing anyway.
his actual Point though, yes. quite correct, and ‘snowflake with arrows’ AC up there is being quite silly and obnoxious in linking this grammatical error to an inability to see and point out actual Stupidity.
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still a valid bit of ‘stupid-logic’ though.
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Because anyone who thinks that’s a good password would have a hard time counting that high?
Why is it...
As a grammar Nazi myself, I think AC was right on target.
Maybe he was a huge Mel Brooks fan.
Kya bhasad hai
Grunt. Hmm, next time I'll be smarter
I personally like to use password, then when it has that password: I can easily remember it.
password of power
So, next we should change our password to:
1234567890qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm
Why is it though I always get the message “This password is to long”….
Honestly, the best way is to find 4 words 4+ letters in length, random with no direct subject links.
I remember reviewing the stats, and a brute force attack on a basic 16 character password like this would take 56 years (approximately) to go through every combination. The whole upper case, lower case, number, special symbol is actually less secure at a length of 8 characters than a 16 character password of only lower case words.
My home network password is 22 (6 words) characters long and my wifi access is 16 (4 words) characters long, and no matter how many brute force attacks I have had on my server (I once had a single IP address try for 2 days straight, resulting in 19 pages of logs before I noticed and permablocked the IP address), I have never had a breach.
Used this example...
Just used the 12345 example in my syndicated column Techlife – How to Hide Your Password In Plain Sight – http://bit.ly/MlR3It
Care to weigh in on if it’s strong enough?
email password
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hgtfctfuygygbujuiioijrftdsesrddstyttytyyt54r5rftyjg