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Bad Passwords. It Even Happens to Ruthless Leaders


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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday.

While Anonymous is infamous for its hacking know-how, it doesn’t take a genius computer programmer to guess one of the passwords commonly used by Assad’s office accounts: 12345. The string of consecutive numbers is the second-weakest password according to a 2011 study.

Learn how President Assad got his account hacked because he picked an easy to guess password.

http://mashable.com/2012/02/07/anonymous-assad-email-password/

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday.

While Anonymous is infamous for its hacking know-how, it doesn’t take a genius computer programmer to guess one of the passwords commonly used by Assad’s office accounts: 12345. The string of consecutive numbers is the second-weakest password according to a 2011 study.

Learn how President Assad got his account hacked because he picked an easy to guess password.

http://mashable.com/2012/02/07/anonymous-assad-email-password/

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I would have guessed it to be "123456." I'd say over half of the scammers use the password, "123456," as most sites require at least 6 characters nowadays. If you see a scammer on TF, don't login to their account using that password.Actually, forget that I even typed this.*bright light**poof**bright light*

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I would have guessed it to be "123456." I'd say over half of the scammers use the password, "123456," as most sites require at least 6 characters nowadays.

If you see a scammer on TF, don't login to their account using that password. Actually, forget that I even typed this.

*bright light*

*poof*

*bright light*

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