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Article #359Re: Additional Bad Passwords not in VMS 5.4
From: nieland_t
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 22:51
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 22:51
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In article <436@sickkids.UUCP>, mark@sickkids.toronto.edu (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>
> OK, I can understand why DEC might be embarrassed to ship its corporate
> bigwig customers a component of VMS with something like "asshole" buried
> inside, but who on earth is Deborah, and what is special about her name?
> Were those names the only ones on the original list? Or did that list
> contain others, of which only "deb{bie,orah}" were elided by KO's henchmen?
> And whichever the case, why? Inquiring minds hunger for enlightenment.
1) There were many names on the original list. The debbie/deborah just didn't
make it into the DEC dictionary. First names of any type are basically a
no-no for passwords. DEC just didn't a good enough list a names in their
dictionary.
2) Certain words are not taboo to be put in the dictionary a good number of
the four letter variety (including f*ck) are already there.
Ted Nieland nieland_t@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil
Control Data Corporation nieland@dayfac.cdc.com
(513) 427-6355 ted@nieland.dayton.oh.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!agate!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!dayton.saic.com!kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil!nieland_t From: nieland_t@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Subject: Re: Additional Bad Passwords not in VMS 5.4 Message-ID: <1991Feb4.175129.25@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil> Date: 4 Feb 91 22:51:29 GMT References: <5149.AA5149@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US> <436@sickkids.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.org.decus Organization: USAF ASD/YF, WPAFB, Dayton, OH Lines: 21