Elana: Change your password!
Sep. 5th, 2004 04:06 pmMore notes and details:
Avi's grown. Was he this tall at PROMYS? Maybe we just didn't notice because we didn't have Yasha there to compare him to.
They're going to (not till after we graduate, of course :P ) get rid of the Evergreen Academy building (yay!) and use the space to make our own school bigger. Does this mean they're going to build a bridge over the small parking lot?
Of course Friday was also the first philosophy class, but not much happened; just introductory class. Dr. Grieco gave us his three phone numbers, said write these down, you may need them, don't tell them to anybody else. I asked if they had to be written down, as I had nowhere secure to write them down. He said write it down anyway. Am I the only one who finds this strange? Rachel is Homework Czar, JT is Bagel Czar, and I forget who's Czar of Notifying Dr. Grieco. I think it's Yelena.
It's strange, my mom is good friends with JT's mom, but she can never recall who the abbreviation "JT" refers to. Presumably because his mom doesn't call him that. On Friday she even asked me if he was a girl or a boy.
So, yesterday, Kevin[0] was over, and he decided he was going to download a password cracking program on my computer and attempt to determine my root password. After going through lots of trouble just trying to install it (because he had no idea how to use Linux :P ), it finally turns out that the passwords on my computer have some sort of extra protection on them so the program couldn't even begin trying to crack them. So he decides to download a password cracking (or rather, password "recovery") program[3] onto my *laptop* and try it there. I note that the password for my account on my laptop I use for a few things, and he points out that you can turn off displaying the actual password when it cracks it, it just tells you if it cracks it and how. What we didn't realize was that apparently the programmers must have accidentally inserted an extra '!' somewhere (or lots of places :P ) and so when it ran it displayed - no, not my password, it didn't get that, but it did get *Elana's* password on my laptop. (We later tried it setting it *to* display the password, and it didn't.) So, Elana, assuming you are reading this: Change your password. Not just here, but anywhere you use that password. Not just because I now know it, but because it sucks. Any cracking program could get that thing. The only thing worse than a password consisting solely of an actual word followed by a number is a password consisting solely of an actual word.
Anyway, Elana also apparently has a "password hint" on my laptop, being "school and physics". As the actual password had nothing to do with either, I figured, this probably means this is her school password and her physics password. This turned out to be incorrect, though; we tried to get her school email and it didn't work.
-Sniffnoy
[0]It should be safe for me to use his name now, as a Google for [not allowed to write this] in livejournal.com turns up no results.
[3]A different one, though.
--
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett, _Jingo_
Avi's grown. Was he this tall at PROMYS? Maybe we just didn't notice because we didn't have Yasha there to compare him to.
They're going to (not till after we graduate, of course :P ) get rid of the Evergreen Academy building (yay!) and use the space to make our own school bigger. Does this mean they're going to build a bridge over the small parking lot?
Of course Friday was also the first philosophy class, but not much happened; just introductory class. Dr. Grieco gave us his three phone numbers, said write these down, you may need them, don't tell them to anybody else. I asked if they had to be written down, as I had nowhere secure to write them down. He said write it down anyway. Am I the only one who finds this strange? Rachel is Homework Czar, JT is Bagel Czar, and I forget who's Czar of Notifying Dr. Grieco. I think it's Yelena.
It's strange, my mom is good friends with JT's mom, but she can never recall who the abbreviation "JT" refers to. Presumably because his mom doesn't call him that. On Friday she even asked me if he was a girl or a boy.
So, yesterday, Kevin[0] was over, and he decided he was going to download a password cracking program on my computer and attempt to determine my root password. After going through lots of trouble just trying to install it (because he had no idea how to use Linux :P ), it finally turns out that the passwords on my computer have some sort of extra protection on them so the program couldn't even begin trying to crack them. So he decides to download a password cracking (or rather, password "recovery") program[3] onto my *laptop* and try it there. I note that the password for my account on my laptop I use for a few things, and he points out that you can turn off displaying the actual password when it cracks it, it just tells you if it cracks it and how. What we didn't realize was that apparently the programmers must have accidentally inserted an extra '!' somewhere (or lots of places :P ) and so when it ran it displayed - no, not my password, it didn't get that, but it did get *Elana's* password on my laptop. (We later tried it setting it *to* display the password, and it didn't.) So, Elana, assuming you are reading this: Change your password. Not just here, but anywhere you use that password. Not just because I now know it, but because it sucks. Any cracking program could get that thing. The only thing worse than a password consisting solely of an actual word followed by a number is a password consisting solely of an actual word.
Anyway, Elana also apparently has a "password hint" on my laptop, being "school and physics". As the actual password had nothing to do with either, I figured, this probably means this is her school password and her physics password. This turned out to be incorrect, though; we tried to get her school email and it didn't work.
-Sniffnoy
[0]It should be safe for me to use his name now, as a Google for [not allowed to write this] in livejournal.com turns up no results.
[3]A different one, though.
--
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett, _Jingo_
