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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Password Hint

From time to time, yours truly receives email messages - particularly from people with Yahoo or gmail accounts - that result from someone guessing their passwords.  The culprit then concocts a story about being stranded in Outer Slobovia and needing money.  If you get one of these messages, don't send money and do let the account holder know his/her account has been hacked.  The moral is to have a password that is hard to guess.

But then comes this word:

Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia, uncovered a startling fact. The launch code for all U.S. Minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code: 00000000. Bellovin discovered this after finding a 2004 paper by Dr. Bruce G. Blair, a former Air Force officer who manned Minuteman silos...

Full story at http://mashable.com/2013/12/04/us-nukes-launch-code/

So what can you say?  (Or sing?)

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