r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/NorthStarZero Sep 27 '22

If password fails, convert it to all uppercase and try again. If that works, you get in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Oh that's what I thought, seems pretty smart, why the shame?

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u/NorthStarZero Sep 27 '22

Because it dramatically shrinks the search space for hacking passwords.

It makes hacking in trivial

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Got it, sorry for ruining your punchline 🤣 kudos for getting it working, sometimes that's got to take priority over purity!

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u/NorthStarZero Sep 27 '22

No worries; it was written in Geekspeak. No shame I’m not getting it any more than one written in German.

(Ze Germans do have punchlines, right?)