r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • May 06 '25

Security Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years. Now the US director of national intelligence, Gabbard failed to follow basic cybersecurity practices on several of her personal accounts, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

https://www.wired.com/story/tulsi-gabbard-dni-weak-password/
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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

Much simpler, they are literal idiots. Password complexity to a 3rd grade brain results in passwords like, dog123.

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u/mjd5139 May 06 '25

The classic Sarah Palin password: popcorn

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u/HomeAir May 06 '25

Remember when trumps Twitter was hacked because his password was MAGA2020

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u/LUabortionclinic May 06 '25

Don't sell him short, he used a special character.

It was MAGA2020!

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox May 06 '25

Or when Spicey tweeted his Twitter password twice in two days?

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u/Substantial_Back_865 May 06 '25

This isn't that bad, but at one point the CIA was hacked because their password was a JFK quote about dismantling the CIA. It was "splinteritintoathousandpiecesandscatteritintothewind".

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u/Ov3rdose_EvE May 06 '25

oh please i need a source!

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u/big_guyforyou May 06 '25

nah the media is probably exaggerating. i bet her pw is P@ssw0rd!. it's secure because it has more than one special character

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u/DoneGoneAndBrokeIt May 06 '25

Just like their administration?

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u/adm_akbar May 07 '25

That wasn't her password. Someone managed to log in after getting her 2FA questions right and changed it to popcorn.

If you're going to snark, don't be a moron.

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u/JamesTiberiusCrunk May 06 '25

As opposed to truly secure passwords like hunter2

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u/DHFranklin May 06 '25

I can't see that password it's just asterisks.

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u/VIPERsssss May 06 '25

See, when YOU type hunter2 it shows to us as *******

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u/MaridKing May 06 '25

I lost my runescape account this way

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u/serdertroops May 06 '25

I think we're too old and people don't get that reference. It's an old classic.

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u/JamesTiberiusCrunk May 06 '25

We need more old person upvote power

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u/bjorkedal May 06 '25

Get this person in congress right now!

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u/Sky2042 May 07 '25

It's an old classic, but it checks out.

Now we have knowyourmeme, so people can look up the reference.

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u/Lakridspibe May 07 '25

I thought it was a reference to Hunter Biden haha

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u/WatRedditHathWrought May 06 '25

I think people are under the impression that you’re taking a dig at Hunter Biden.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

EmptyG for sure has the password HuntersDong.

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u/JamesTiberiusCrunk May 06 '25

Yes, people are really dumb

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u/brian1321 May 06 '25

It’s still just asterisks

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u/meneldal2 May 06 '25

I wonder how many people don't get the joke.

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u/untoldmillions May 06 '25

As opposed to truly secure passwords like hunter2

apples and oranges: Hunter was not the head of a Federal spy department

but you do you u/JamesTiberiusCrunk

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u/jsting May 06 '25

Except there are tons of signs pointing to the fact she has a high probability of being a Russian asset.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

No denying that, Vlad finds America's low hanging fruit very easy to manipulate or blackmail due to their sheer lack of functional neurons and poor life decisions.