The Password Is Always Swordfish: Difference between revisions

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** At the chocolate factory, the password for the machinery is "Creamy center".
* Double subversion in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''; Lindesfarne needs to get Vin's password to access his computer and alter his data to prevent him from exposing Domestication, but the obvious password, "die_rudy_die"(based on Vin's known hatred for Rudy), doesn't work; he changed it to "mr_and_mrs_vin_and_dale_vulpen", as he had recently developed a crush on Corrie (who was masquerading as a wolf named Dale). Rather than guess that password, she has to date him in order to get it.
** Aby's e-mail password was "[[C 4 TD 00 R]]C4TD00R". And she never changed it when she left her ex, so he still had access to her account.
* Played with in this series of ''[[Mezzacotta|Comments on a Postcard]]'': [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=386 386], [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=389 389], [http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=392 392].
* Trying her best to remember how to hack, [[Ciem Webcomic Series|Candi Levens]] finally makes a lucky guess that the password to the Viron Library's Meethlite agenda archives is "[[Die Levens]]." The Meethlites are clearly big [[Feuding Families|on hatred]], but [[Plot Induced Stupidity|small on creativity]] and [[Swiss Cheese Security|security]].
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{{quote|'''Zuviel''': Must admit it beats "swordfish"}}
* In ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'', Mordred says [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/2074.htm Gawain's password] is "password" (after cracking Gareths', which are her husband's name and her nickname, but in [[Leet Speak]]). Which is odd, because while Gawain's dumb in a lot of areas, computers are supposed to be what he's ''good'' at.
* ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]'' disagrees with this trope in a [http://xkcd.com/936/ rather well explained fashion]. It has a value of truth, but is far more vulnerable to dictionary attacks than are passwords created using the usual advice.
 
 
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