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| Topic | Which of these 'bypassing security' writing tropes do you find the silliest? |
| Zeus 10/06/20 11:59:40 PM #34: | Whargarble posted... The easily guessed password one irks me to no end. The heroes look around the room for context clues and see that the villain has a book on ancient Japanese warfare or something and type in "Nobunaga" and boom, they're in. This is almost literally what happened in Watchmen and it bothers the hell out of me. Nobody makes passwords like that. Real passwords are a random word or short phrase followed by a couple of numbers. Nobody is guessing that on their third try. Non-tech-savvy people frequently do, though. Granted, the Nobunaga feels like a total asspull. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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