hah, the essids are the passwords at my house

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 3:11 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> That phone number is the WiFi password at my Brother's house and he's 46.
>
> It might also be the combination on President Skroob's luggage.
>
>
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> *From:* AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Ken Hohhof <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 9, 2025 10:28 AM
> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Gmail filters
>
>
> I sometimes use 8675309, I figure nobody under 60 will guess it.
>
>
>
> A WISP we bought out had ihtmanpn19 as the password on everything, for “I
> have to make a new password now” and apparently they had done it 19 times.
>
>
>
> 20 years ago when WEP was still a thing, hardly anyone could come up with
> a 10 digit hex password.  You’d tell them it has to be exactly 10
> characters and you can only use 0-9 and A-F, and their brains would just
> freeze up.  So we’d tell them to use their 10 digit phone number as their
> WiFi password.  Some are still using that password, although the landline
> phone is probably gone.
>
>
>
> I wonder what the meetings are like where they come up with password
> complexity rules.  Let’s make them use upper and lower case letters.
> And no dictionary words.  Oh, and numbers.  That was fun, let’s require
> special characters now, watch them struggle.  How about you can’t repeat
> the same character.  Or use any of your last 10 passwords.  Can we make
> them eat a bug?
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 9, 2025 8:52 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Gmail filters
>
>
>
> thats ingenious, hiding in plain sight
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM Bill Prince <*[email protected]
> <[email protected]>*> wrote:
>
> I always use 12345678!
>
> The bang at the always throws them off.
>
>
>
> bp
>
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 9/8/2025 2:15 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
> based on your recent shady antics i think its you. Are you the Google
> bill? do you have my passwords? is this what its all been about?
>
>
>
> dude, its Password1, its always been Password1
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM Bill Prince <*[email protected]
> <[email protected]>*> wrote:
>
> Darn good question. Exactly who is/are the intermediaries? How many
> hands(eyes) do your credentials pass through?
>
> bp
>
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 9/8/2025 10:59 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>
> This is why I hate all the sites that say “or log in with Google”.  Like
> paywalled content sites.  What does that even mean, log in with Google?
>
>
>
> *From:* AF *<[email protected]> <[email protected]>* *On
> Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Monday, September 8, 2025 12:10 PM
> *To:* *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Gmail filters
>
>
>
> The history did not show anything that looked even remotely suspicious,
> and this account has no forwarding rules. There was one filter that I put
> in so long ago, I don't remember when it was. This new filter just appeared
> out of nowhere (at least to me).
>
> I use Thunderbird most of the time, and rarely use web mail. The one other
> activity that I'd been doing in the time frame was archiving a bunch of
> older emails to clear space, but I did that in Thunderbird. In fact, I
> thought I'd accidentally created a filter in Thunderbird (that's what I
> used to archive the old emails), but after I did the archiving, I purged
> the Thunderbird filters).
>
> bp
>
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 9/8/2025 9:15 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
> you can look in your login history to see if your account was accessed
> from elsewhere, also just for kicks check your forwarding rules to make
> sure there isnt a forwarder set up
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM Bill Prince <*[email protected]
> <[email protected]>*> wrote:
>
> Just a few days ago, I changed all my google account passwords (in case
> you hadn't heard, there was a breach of ~~ 2.5 billion accounts).
>
> As is probably the case with most of you, I have several google accounts
> for different purposes (including this one). So I went through them one
> by one. Just changed the passwords, and nothing else.
>
> Right after that, all my AF incoming started going directly to trash
> (not spam). I couldn't for the life of me figure out why until I checked
> filters, and somehow a filter had been applied that directed all
> incoming to the inbox was sent to trash.
>
> I did not do that, and I don't know how it happened. My SO thinks I was
> hacked, but I have a hard time believing that.
>
> None of my other google accounts was affected.
>
>
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