Heh, back 35 years ago at University of Waterloo, I had a student who had some problem and gave me his password (yeah, yeah, we weren't quite as paranoid about such things back then, plus he could always change it, plus-although we didn't admit it-the user directory was actually stored in plaintext so I could just look it up if I really needed it; the fiction was that we couldn't-if someone lost their password, we could force a new one but "can't look it up"-but that was a lie).
Anyway, his password was: "I LOVE K". Just one thing: the password processor tokenized. So his password was actually just "I". Oops. Next time you go to Best Buy, notice that they make the checkers log in for every customer. Which means their passwords are all 12345678 or 11111111 et sim. (BB also at least used to use CICS for inventory: if you asked them to check stock on something, you could see them log onto CICS and issue a transaction, which I thought was fun; haven't checked lately.) ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
