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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler

Platystemon posted:

Yes.

Following all the twists and turns is a good way to lose brain cells, but everyone should go read the first page of that thread for laughs.

Q’s first password was “Matlock”. :wow:
The second password was "HereC@mesTheP@in--23", which is a little more secure, but not when you just straight up type it into the subject field of a post.

edit for top of page content: Q's cult is a real masterclass in bad ways to present information visually

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin has a new favorite as of 13:46 on Aug 7, 2018

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Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

The second password was "HereC@mesTheP@in--23", which is a little more secure, but not when you just straight up type it into the subject field of a post.

Truly one of our government's greatest minds with access to its deepest secrets

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Nap Ghost

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Truly one of our government's greatest minds with access to its deepest secrets

People with clearances are p. dumb with passwords tbh

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Truly one of our government's greatest minds with access to its deepest secrets

That actually makes it more believable, to be honest.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Platystemon posted:

There’s some guy who claims to have Q clearance (read “TOP SECRET”) and posts fanfiction on 4chan. His followers call themselves “The Storm”.

He’s made like two thousand cryptic posts. One of the major plot points is that Mueller is actually working with Trump to bring down the DEEP STATE.

There are deranged idiots out there who hang on his every word.

Plus, Q clearance is specifically to do with nuclear energy/weapons. It's a DoE clearance. There's no reason someone with that clearance would know anything about DoD activities, "deep state", or whatever. These smart internet sleuths should have started with Wikipedia. :shrug:

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

DarkHorse posted:

People with clearances are p. dumb with passwords tbh

Paladinus posted:

That actually makes it more believable, to be honest.
Good point actually

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012


Indeed a terrible graph. Bread is not a natural food for birds and can make them sick. Sane environmental organizations advice that if you really want to feed birds, give them small vegetables such as peas.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Indeed a terrible graph. Bread is not a natural food for birds and can make them sick. Sane environmental organizations advice that if you really want to feed birds, give them small vegetables such as peas.

it's my understanding that the problem isn't inherent toxicity in bread, it's that bread tastes good and people throw enough of it at birds that they can satisfy their entire caloric needs with it, which leads to vitamin deficiencies and poo poo because bread is not designed to be the only thing anyone eats. the end result is still "stop feeding bread to birds, give them things with more nutrients," of course.

Cat Hatter
Oct 24, 2006

Hatters gonna hat.

InediblePenguin posted:

it's my understanding that the problem isn't inherent toxicity in bread, it's that bread tastes good and people throw enough of it at birds that they can satisfy their entire caloric needs with it, which leads to vitamin deficiencies and poo poo because bread is not designed to be the only thing anyone eats. the end result is still "stop feeding bread to birds, give them things with more nutrients," of course.

Bird beriberi is more entertaining to say than the joke I was working on.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Plus, Q clearance is specifically to do with nuclear energy/weapons. It's a DoE clearance. There's no reason someone with that clearance would know anything about DoD activities, "deep state", or whatever. These smart internet sleuths should have started with Wikipedia. :shrug:

I don't know what DoE does, so I assume it's a front for the Illuminati and having a DoE clearance means being in on literally everything. I'm a smart.

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

steinrokkan posted:

I don't know what DoE does, so I assume it's a front for the Illuminati and having a DoE clearance means being in on literally everything. I'm a smart.

Pretty much, they control the nukes.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Good point actually

If they really wanted to make it look like genuine leaked government secrets they should have left it in a completely unencrypted usb drive on a train

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Plus, Q clearance is specifically to do with nuclear energy/weapons. It's a DoE clearance. There's no reason someone with that clearance would know anything about DoD activities, "deep state", or whatever. These smart internet sleuths should have started with Wikipedia. :shrug:

If they started with Wikipedia they would have seen this awful chart



implying that Q clearance is in fact a superset of TOP SECRET clearance.


This may technically be true, but classified information works on a need‐to‐know basis. Someone working on nuclear weapons doesn’t need to know palace intrigue.

ol qwerty bastard
Dec 13, 2005

If you want something done, do it yourself!

steinrokkan posted:

I don't know what DoE does, so I assume it's a front for the Illuminati and having a DoE clearance means being in on literally everything. I'm a smart.

I'd bet they picked the Department of Energy for their little story entirely because of Stranger Things.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Platystemon posted:

If they started with Wikipedia they would have seen this awful chart



implying that Q clearance is in fact a superset of TOP SECRET clearance.


This may technically be true, but classified information works on a need‐to‐know basis. Someone working on nuclear weapons doesn’t need to know palace intrigue.

Again, this is all inside of DoE, and as you say, this is based on need-to-know.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?

:lol:

Also I'm the Swiss Pharaohs on the giant loony chart

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
This qualifies, in my book. Context: uh, the big image shows the original tweet that the person deleted and tweeted an apology for.

Mak0rz posted:

Nice try pal but it wasn't a joke. It was a factual statement supported by real evidence and this morning they brought the receipt to prove it.

https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1027976446961242118

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Finally, some ethics in video games twitter jokes.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

DACK FAYDEN posted:

This qualifies, in my book. Context: uh, the big image shows the original tweet that the person deleted and tweeted an apology for.

Why would you apologize for such a great insult?

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

whoever runs Supper Mario Broth has incredible posting strength

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Should have used the median :colbert:

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



Supper Mario Broth legitimately has more credibility than most news organizations and more integrity than any politician.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

DACK FAYDEN posted:

This qualifies, in my book. Context: uh, the big image shows the original tweet that the person deleted and tweeted an apology for.

I refuse to believe that there was any kind of popular request for any of this.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Platystemon posted:

If they started with Wikipedia they would have seen this awful chart

implying that Q clearance is in fact a superset of TOP SECRET clearance.


This may technically be true, but classified information works on a need‐to‐know basis. Someone working on nuclear weapons doesn’t need to know palace intrigue.

A hell of a lot of people don't know how security clearance works at all. They think that if you have :siren: TOP SECRET :siren: clearance then you can just walk into literally any facility, flash your badge, and go wherever you want, whenever you want, to get any information you could possibly desire. So a level higher than that! Wow! That's like :siren: SUPER ULTRA DARK MEGA TOP DOUBLE SECRET :siren: so they must have access to really crazy stuff. I mean, you hear about people with TOP SECRET clearance all the time but you NEVER hear about Q so it must be rare!

Except that how it works in the real world is that if you have TOP SECRET and nothing else then you get literally nothing. All that means is "yeah pretty sure we can trust this guy." Then you get clearances for only those things you should be seeing; need to know basis like you said. For the Department of Energy well loving yeah you want the dudes to be vetted to hell and back if they're going to be prodding at your nuke plants. Or your electricity infrastructure in general. That's, you know, important and will definitely get attacked if somebody wants to hurt us so loving right we want to clear feds working on that sort of thing but no the nuclear power plant inspector does not need access to top secret military plans. Why the gently caress would he?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
On the subject of Q, someone cracked his tripcodes. As in, every one to date: https://pastebin.com/P1g5RPWs

quote:

Tripcode: ITPb.qbhqo -> Password: Matlock
Tripcode: UW.yye1fxo -> Password: M@tlock!
Tripcode: xowAT4Z3VQ -> Password: Freed@m-
Tripcode: 2jsTvXXmXs -> Password: F!ghtF!g
Tripcode: 4pRcUA0lBE -> Password: NowC@mes
Tripcode: CbboFOtcZs -> Password: StoRMkiL
Tripcode: A6yxsPKia. -> Password: WeAReQ@Q

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

ToxicSlurpee posted:

A hell of a lot of people don't know how security clearance works at all. They think that if you have :siren: TOP SECRET :siren: clearance then you can just walk into literally any facility, flash your badge, and go wherever you want, whenever you want, to get any information you could possibly desire. So a level higher than that! Wow! That's like :siren: SUPER ULTRA DARK MEGA TOP DOUBLE SECRET :siren: so they must have access to really crazy stuff. I mean, you hear about people with TOP SECRET clearance all the time but you NEVER hear about Q so it must be rare!

Except that how it works in the real world is that if you have TOP SECRET and nothing else then you get literally nothing. All that means is "yeah pretty sure we can trust this guy." Then you get clearances for only those things you should be seeing; need to know basis like you said. For the Department of Energy well loving yeah you want the dudes to be vetted to hell and back if they're going to be prodding at your nuke plants. Or your electricity infrastructure in general. That's, you know, important and will definitely get attacked if somebody wants to hurt us so loving right we want to clear feds working on that sort of thing but no the nuclear power plant inspector does not need access to top secret military plans. Why the gently caress would he?

You also don't want people who know a lot about nukes to go to certain countries or talk to certain people.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Ariong posted:

Supper Mario Broth legitimately has more credibility than most news organizations and more integrity than any politician.

That's not terrifically difficult huge angry bullet to duck under.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

Platystemon posted:

On the subject of Q, someone cracked his tripcodes. As in, every one to date: https://pastebin.com/P1g5RPWs

Matlock to M@tlock! is like when work makes me change my password requirements

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Spoeank posted:

Matlock to M@tlock! is like when work makes me change my password requirements

Every 90 days the password grows. p@ssword35 becomes p@ssword36

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


CannonFodder posted:

p1ssword35 becomes p1ssword36

Fixed

Naughty passwords are easier to remember, and an endless source of hilarity when interacting with the helpdesk.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



I've read a few times that apparently the person who came up with all the different password rules in the nineties has since repented, but it's too late now. We're stuck with them.

At work I definitely follow the password35 -> password36 process. What's a hacker going to do anyway, do my job for me

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

IF I EVER MISS VOTING IN AN ELECTION (EVEN AMERICAN IDOL) ,OR HAVE UNPAID PARKING TICKETS, PLEASE TAKE AWAY MY FRANCHISE

Phlegmish posted:

I've read a few times that apparently the person who came up with all the different password rules in the nineties has since repented, but it's too late now. We're stuck with them.

Yep.
https://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

People Goons like to dump on XKCD, but no other web comic hits that same spot of rarefied nerd poo poo like it does.

Count Roland
Oct 6, 2013

Megillah Gorilla posted:

People Goons like to dump on XKCD, but no other web comic hits that same spot of rarefied nerd poo poo like it does.

I'm a big fan of XKCD but honestly it hasn't been consistently funny in many years.

e: I went to xkcd.com and hit random and got this:



e2: ok so I got sucked in:

Count Roland has a new favorite as of 19:34 on Aug 13, 2018

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Is that... one of the Old Ones?

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Jay Rust posted:

Is that... one of the Old Ones?

Your heartbeat gives you out; quickly run to the base rock and pray.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Phlegmish posted:

I've read a few times that apparently the person who came up with all the different password rules in the nineties has since repented, but it's too late now. We're stuck with them.

At work I definitely follow the password35 -> password36 process. What's a hacker going to do anyway, do my job for me

The worst password rule is “you have to have some so‐called special characters, but others are forbidden, but we’re not going to tell you which ones, and maybe will through an unrelated error like complain about the length when actually we just didn’t like the question mark.”

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