5/7/26 - Passwords, A Missing I, and A License Plate
- bribriny
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Thursday 5/7/26
Celebrate:
Make-A-Book Day
National Barrier Awareness Day
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
National Cosmopolitan Day
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Reason
National Mural Day
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
National Tourism Day
Paste Up Day
World Password Day
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Ted Turner, the high-flying media tycoon, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded CNN and revolutionized American cable television, died on Wednesday.
He was 87.
Turner’s death was first reported by CNN, citing a Turner Enterprises news release.
In his prime, Turner was one of the kings of broadcasting, a brash but savvy visionary. He turned the Turner Broadcasting System into a behemoth, establishing the “superstation” concept and launching channels such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies. My favorite was Headline News. Every half-hour it started over. Smart!
Read more from CNN here.
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Enzoic.com had a list of the worst passwords
admin (or admin with only a few extra characters like admin1, admin!, adminX)
password2025 (and iterations of it, such as 2025Password)
password (and iterations of it, such as password1, password123, p4ssword)
p@ssw0rd (or other common leetspeak variations)
Even today, password and its variations have consistently appeared as a top worst password.
12345 (and iterations of it, such as 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123456789)
654321 (reversed versions of common passwords)
iloveyou
qwerty (and iterations of it, such as qwerty1, qwerty!, qwerty123, etc.)
111111 (and others like it with sequential characters, such as 222222, 333333, 444444, 5555555, etc.)
123123 (and iterations of it, such as 12341234, 1234512345, 321321, etc.)
abc123 (and iterations of it, such as abcd123, abcd1234, 321cba, etc.)
asdfgh (and iterations of it, such as asdfghj, asdfgh!, etc.)
Website name (passwords that contain the site name. ie: www.acmecompany.com and the password is acmecompany)
Any common word in the dictionary with fewer than 8 characters
Lastly, compromised passwords that have been exposed along with your username!
A strong password isn’t necessarily a safe password. Although many passwords meet typical algorithmic strength requirements, they may still be unsafe if they exist in password cracking dictionaries used by cybercriminals.
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A woman shared on Threads: “I went on a date with this guy I’d been talking to for a couple weeks. Everything was cool until the bill came. He looked at me and said, “So you got this, right? I paid for your coffee last week.” The coffee was $6. Dinner was $78. I laughed, thinking he was joking, but he just sat there. No card out. Nothing. So I paid for my meal only, told the server to split it, and got up and left.” Not long after she posted this she added an update: “Now he’s texting me saying I embarrassed him and could’ve ‘handled it better.'”
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Organizers of the Amway River Bank Run in Michigan are having a "Wheel of Fortune" moment after realizing this year’s finisher ribbons have a glaring typo. Thousands of runners will officially be celebrated as a "FINSHER"—the second "I" didn't make the cut.
Participants can order an updated ribbon with the correct spelling, but many are embracing being a "Finsher!"
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A Long Island grandfather has officially won his battle to keep his vanity plate: "PB4WEGO." After the DMV denied his renewal for being "offensive," he took the fight straight to Governor Kathy Hochul. The Governor called him personally to approve the plate, calling its message an "important life lesson" for parents everywhere.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - In 1919, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum died on May 6th. He supposedly lived his whole life with a phobia that his heart would stop while he was sleeping—which is exactly how he passed away.
In 1919, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, died on this day. He supposedly lived his whole life with a phobia that his heart would stop while he was sleeping—which is exactly how he passed away.
Also, he was born and raised in Chittenango, NY, where they have yellow brick sidewalks.
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