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Chris RemingtonM to Technology@beehaw.org • 3 days ago

Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years

www.wired.com

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Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years

www.wired.com

Chris RemingtonM to Technology@beehaw.org • 3 days ago
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Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

https://archive.is/WD8NT

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  • @klu9@lemmy.ca
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    18•3 days ago

    Plausible deniability for when it’s discovered her accounts are controlled from Moscow?

    “Oh, I must have been hacked cuz weak passwords. That’s why my account sent our classified war plans to Putin.”

    • Pete Hahnloser
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      6•3 days ago

      Everyone knows you do that on Signal.

      • Rob Bos
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        4•2 days ago

        Or a manky Signal clone with backdoors transmitting everything in plain text…

  • Archangel
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    Good thing they put her in charge of intelligence, then.

  • @milkisklim@lemm.ee
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    That’s weird. I have my browsers set up so if I type my password all that shows up is *******

    • @DickFiasco@lemm.ee
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      I have the same add-on I think. When I type hunter2 it just shows up as hunter2 instead.

      • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I have the same add-on I think. When I type ******* it just shows up as ******* instead.

        That’s a neat plug-in.

        • @sqgl@beehaw.org
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    • @jherazob@beehaw.org
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      hunter2?

  • @kooks_only@lemmy.ca
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