>When a password of 9 or more characters is sent, their buffer is over-run, and it allows you to log in.

Man, computers used to be fun

mingus88 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It really was a fun time. I remember sitting in a coffee shop just sniffing WiFi traffic.

A friend was a reporter for the local paper and interviewed the mayor. I turned my laptop around and showed my friend the mayors imap password. Just right there floating through the air.

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moray 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I had to do the same at a friend's house once because he forgot his email password that was still saved in the browser!

And what about "borrowing" internet access by using a WiFi connection that used WEP? Learning the process and getting the first password was so satisfying...

	▲	frmrtntn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the early 2000s a lot of people rolled with no encryption at all! In high school I'd drive around the nearby neighborhoods at lunch until I found an open wifi network so I could browse the net. Never took long to find one.

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masternight 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember when ICQ used to give you the other persons IP address.

Then you could use that to winnuke them.

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yyaakkqq 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

today you can use a WhatsApp call. or meet/teams/zoom...

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bestham 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or run NetBus :-D

	▲	NexRebular 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just to end up connecting to NetBuster.

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miek 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[flagged]

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wafflebot 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lucky for me, my ICQ password was only 8 characters. And I used it on every website!

(To this day I can recall my ICQ number faster than my childhood phone number or my social security number.)

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wildpeaks 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I often half-joke that my ICQ number is the last thing I'll forget if I get Alzheimer, long after my own name.

	▲	jghn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mine is still burned into my brain but I managed to get locked out a couple of decades ago so can't even do a nostalgia login.

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jghn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

8? That was fancy. Mine was 7, all lower case characters, and I also used it on every website!

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r0fl 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[dead]

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sshagent 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I seem to vaguely recall some buffer overflow for Sun Solaris, which was fun to login with. I do wonder what fun AI would have had crawling through these old code bases to find the crazy exploits available back then

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shakna 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They still are. [0]

> This could lead to remote code execution over Bluetooth with no additional execution privileges needed.

[0] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0022

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nubinetwork 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unix crypt only accepted 8 characters and ignored the rest. If your password was 123456789, it was considered the same as 12345678a.

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jrpelkonen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, this comment reminded me of this story: https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-s...

	▲	t_mahmood 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Now I'll always have the nagging question about the recycle bin with engineer in it.

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a_bonobo 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For local LAN play, Half-Life checked the CD key only for length I believe? It would happily accept 1234-56789-0123

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broeng 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

BCrypt also comes to mind, as a more recent example ...

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reinvantveer 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This made me almost spit out my coffee in laughter. This just made my day, hahaha

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saadn92 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep, now everything is done through agents unfortunately.