Dude, why didn't you look around for the bug that makes them misreport the news so horribly that a majority of FOX News viewers still believes Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and Saddam had WMDs when the US invaded?

You're going to jail and slashdot is getting shut down. It's a federal offense to interfere with an official government propaganda outlet.

Enjoy your stay in gitmo!

That's the same password to my locker!

Now the question is, was it changed by Fox or someone else.

Hey, that's not a bug - it's a feature.

That is all we need, months of stories how "evil hackers got into Fox network"

Followed up with "Hackers: Evil and must be stopped?" to linking hacking to Obama, a danger to your kids and finally Hackers gone wild at Spring break.

Oh shut the fuck up, you Gentoo fanboi. If they used Gentoo, the server would still be recompiling from a kernel update six months ago. Take your Genntoo, and jam it up your ass sideways and backwards. It's 0.038% more optimized for that.

>And honestly how many of you guys use a password like YwMCU07D?

Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.

"T1me Out"... that's the kind of password an idiot would use on his luggage!

You missed another possibility: that we'll be throwing beads at pasty, flabby geeks to get them to put their clothes back on.

> And honestly how many of you guys use a password like YwMCU07D?

My account passwords are nothing like that and my root passwords are > 24 chars.

At the very least create a random string of 4-8 chars and use it as a (pre|post)-fix to your standard passwords.

Here's some for the lazy...

tVx1x%65
T9uOL0;{
]3HUk2:w
SWg7E1K*

I agree, and my personal experience with corporate passwords has been the same. I'm sure this would disturb security geeks at various levels (or get them salivating!), but I don't see this as a *huge* loophole since most of the systems are inside the corporate firewall anyway. IMHO, this is about as big a security threat as an employee or a contractor copying sensitive data (which the password is protecting) and trying to profit from it illegally.

A system that I was managing once started crashing, and further investigation revealed that the password of an upstream system had been changed. When we contacted the admin team of the offending application, they informed us that they had upgraded the password from 123 to the "highly secure" (in their words) 234.

...to doing 'fair and balanced' journalism.

>And honestly how many of you guys use a password like YwMCU07D?

Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.

Me too!

If America wants to encourage countries not to proliferate, would it not make sense to disband our own arsenal? Who are we going to use it on anyway?

Oh sure. Let's shed all our defenses and leave ourselves vulnerable to an attack by Canadia. That would be a good idea. I say we nuke Ontario now, just to be on the safe side.

they can get ton's of free publicity

Now, is that "ton is of free publicity", or does Mr. Ton have a lot of "of free publicity" that he could potentially give to you?

>>And honestly how many of you guys use a password like YwMCU07D?

>Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.

Don't feel bad, I had the same combination on my luggage.

Tit's up - and outa there!

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We have meltdown - I repeat we have meltdown. Now someone get that pile of circuts and goo off the rack and get a new one in here pronto.

Do you think they mind if I delete all the files containing Bill O'Reilly?

Bush didn't tell the American people that he 'believed' that Saddam had WMDs. He said, "I guarantee that Saddam has WMD's". I just want to know if that was a money-back guarantee, 'cause, if so, my future grandkids have one hell of a rebate check coming.

> Great - now I have to go change all my passwords.

Don't worry about it. I just did it for you.

No way is Fox News going to do that. That's Al Gore's strategy!

Only for a few hours, while the regular moderator was getting his colon checked out.

Actually, only 7 of them were joking .... but which seven? :)

Saddam Hussein backed an attempt on the life of W's dad after George Bush became an ex-pres. W had also tried to convince his dad to takeover Baghdad in Gulf War I, but daddy said no so there probably was, for a lifelong screw-up, a need to show his father he could succeed where daddy couldn't. Plus Cheney wanted it so his executive buddies at Halliburton could make a mint on a no-bid contract.