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Claude helps man recover $400,000 in BTC 11 years after he got high and forgot password (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 51 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I bet it was "hunter2".

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The password, as later revealed in the post, was: “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)”

In the article.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

I'm familiar with the meme, I thought the real PW in question was funnier, especially as the user was clearly inebriated when he made it to forget that one.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 37 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"*******" is a weird password. Aren't there supposed to be letters and numbers ?

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy hides it for us. It's pretty sweet.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely love that feature. Imagine you accidentally type or paste your ******** into a comment. Now everyone can see your ********! What a banger. But not on Lemmy! It gets masked automatically so that none can see and guess you ********!

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

If i ever ran a public fedi instance, that top 100 password list would legitimately be in the filter just for shits and giggles.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

All I see is "lol420fuckthePOLICE" does Lemmy automatically hide passwords or something?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, all I see is stars while you see "lolFuckthePOLICE".

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Yeah it has this super innovative feature that looks up passwords and hides them for you. Like, my email password is "trumphasamushroompenis" and it hides it. Cool right?