this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
331 points (93.2% liked)

Cybersecurity - Memes

1785 readers
404 users here now

Only the hottest memes in Cybersecurity

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 16 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why use an AI generated cat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Weirdly enough, while the cat is AI generated, the glasses are 100% real.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know, it's a real cat. Here is the original image I used. Resizing it made it hella blurry so I ran it through an AI image enhancement. The text turned out shitty so I just redid the text. After image enhancement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ah, the AI upscaling made it look entirely fake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same feeling when you go to reset the password and find out this site has a weird rule like "cannot use full words within password", and then remembering the weird password you used for the site. I wish password requirements could be seen next to the login field sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This makes it easier on the people trying to guess the accounts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Unless the website has changed it at some point, the password creation rules will be easily accessible just by going to the account creation page. Having it copied to the login page is not going to help people guess your password in any meaningful way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And then you notice your caps lock was on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My favorite is when systems will stealth truncate your password without telling you, but only when setting it. For some reason I often encounter this with systems truncating to 20 characters.

  • Set 24 character password: no error (secretly truncated to 20 characters).
  • Try to log in: credentials invalid (it checks the full 24 character one against the 20 character one).
  • Go to reset to what it should be, password can't be the same (again, stealth truncating to 20 characters).
[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Samsung does this for device pins and it annoys me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

well acshully...

I can imagine this could happen if sites change the implementation, e.g. their password hashing algorithm, in a way that require a password reset. (e.g. the site still used md5 or sha1 for password hashing). They won't allow login with the broken hash. But they still check if the new password is the old one, since the old one could be compromised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Omfg, I didnt even think of this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can't come in. Our tiger has got flu.

For those that don't know; sudo insults.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

My fucking school account was like this from year 4 through to the end of my schooling career. Thankfully I didn't have to contend with that system for most of the latter half of my school years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This can happen if you change your password and try to log in using the old one, and the system prevents you from using any password you have set previously (Google does this, for example)