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I had a returned email.
Couldn't be delivered as the address was not recognised.
I looked at the IP from the person who typed it in (It was sent as a form via a website).
On typing in the IP I was taken to a Belkin Router set up page.
It was asking for a password.
I typed in the surname of the person and behold!
Full access to change settings or anything else I wanted for that matter.
Now, being a good person, I did nothing.
I shall attempt to contact them directly and explain why they should make their password more difficult to guess.
If I can get it on the very first attempt, then so can other people.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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or "admin" - or "password"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Anything from the Star Wars book of names.
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You see, you need to be clever about these things, do something unexpected like....
"drowssap" password, backwords! They'll never know!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I use "itsafuckingsecret" for my wifi password, just so I can have fun when people ask for teh password
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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+5
i´ll Keep that in mind... 
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How soon will he be receiving his 14 gallons of ink?
Delivery times are important.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think it's more important to block WAN access than setting up a difficult password. You could be nice and configure the router for him that way 
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I good person would have stopped before.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I was using "blabla" as my WEB mail password for a long time. One day I tried to open the mail from another country (Ukraina), and was brutally rejected, after typing the captcha correctly 10 times.
When I went back home, I found the WEB mail provider message. They proudly informed me, that several attempts to break by account from Ukraina were prevented by their security system. I was so scared, that changed my password immediately.
modified 21-Nov-13 9:11am.
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Did 'mumblemumble' prove to be more secure?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Good idea. I will use this for my bank account WEB access, instead of current "qwerty".
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OriginalGriff wrote: SPAM.
So is this 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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You want me to report your post? 
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Give it to the postman next time he drops by to pay a visit to the missus...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Hi All,
Walking to work I walked past a big building site which has closed the pavement one side so I cross over to the other side a walk past the wooden sheets used as barriers, some one had done some not unattractive graffiti on them, fine it's city (Bristol by the way) one of the panels must have needed replacing as it was the standard battle ship grey with some graffiti sprayed on it "bourgour nonsense" with an arrow to the previous design. Lead me to think that very act is a definition of Bourgeois Nonsense, as it spelt wrong and a lack of a capital B, so who is the most bourgeois the badly taught graffiti artist (who can't spell), the graffiti artist who is talented (not my taste, though) or me for seeing it and going "oh dear the youth of today day" 
Glenn
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You are on a slippery slope, my friend.
Just wait, today it is "missing capital letter" and "bad spelling". Tomorrow it's "Grocer's Apostrophe" laughing at "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss and fury at misused semicolons. Then all that is left is a trip to the balaclava shop before you join the Militant Wing of the Apostrophe Protection Society.
Welcome Aboard!
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It was not the spelling or punctuation the very act of spraying "Bourgeois Nonsense" is Bourgeois Nonsense is it not ?
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Ah, but spelling it wrong could be a deliberate ironic statement that nullifies the bourgeois element.
Or he could just be a d*ck.
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I am quite sure of your second statement, less sure of your first!
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I run an APS terrorist cell. We raided a Waterstones bookshop demanding they search for the elusive ' they are officially dropping from their brand name.
For every apostrophe that is lost, there is a landfill site where they are stored pending recycling.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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...that should get the NSA interested! 
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