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RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin (arstechnica.com)
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[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A far more secure password would have been RipeAdmin1$. Gotta get those capitals, lowercases, numbers, and special characters.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Passphrases 14+ characters with upper and lower case, numbers, special characters. Such as r1peAsAm@ang0adm1n!

At least that’s what John Oliver and Ed Snowden say. I trust Ed on this one.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Each added character adds much more entropy than character class. Password Strength

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It should be

r!p3adm!n