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  • R raddevus

    OriginalGriff wrote:

    Look at your keyboard ... Specifically the lowest row of letters ...

    I am lame for not noticing. I'm a touch-typist too. Should'a known. <forehad slap> :rolleyes:

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    BryanFazekas
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    Actually, being a touch-typist means you're LESS likely to notice. I type moderately fast (60-80 wpm), but if you ask me where a given key is located, I have to think about it. I've been typing long enough that my fingers do what is necessary without conscious thought.

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    • M maze3

      oh no, passwords has mine: geekboy 😥

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      raddevus
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      I saw geekboy in the passwords file too. :-D

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        Actually, being a touch-typist means you're LESS likely to notice. I type moderately fast (60-80 wpm), but if you ask me where a given key is located, I have to think about it. I've been typing long enough that my fingers do what is necessary without conscious thought.

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        raddevus
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        BryanFazekas wrote:

        being a touch-typist means you're LESS likely to notice.

        Yeah, I think you are right about that. I've been touch-typing for over 30 years (learned by playing WizType (Wizard of Id) on a Commodore 128). Amazing, you can actually play the game on Archive.org right in your browser.[^] I just tried it. :) Anyways, you are right. I just type, I don't know where the keys are. :laugh:

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        • R raddevus

          I wrote a program that watches the files which are created, updated, deleted, etc on your disk (Read about it here on CP[^]). Wow, that was gratuitous self-promotion and it didn't even feel like it. :laugh: Anyways, I had DiscoFiles running and I noticed that MS Edge directories were accessed. MS Edge Secrets I looked in this MS Edge directory and found its secrets... You can get to it on your system (If you are running Edge) at:

          %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\ZxcvbnData\3.0.0.0

          I mean I'm assuming that last directory will be named ZxcvbnData on yours too?? Copy-Paste to your FileExplorer and it'll get you there. You can see that there[^]. It's a list of files named:

          english_wikipedia.txt
          female_names.txt
          male_names.txt
          manifest.fingerprint
          manifest.json
          passwords.txt
          surnames.txt
          us_tv_and_film.txt

          What!?! Well, passwords is a lot of fun. Check it out. FYI - the passwords file is 30,000 lines long (30,000 common / bad passwords)

          sunshine
          iloveyou
          f*ckme // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
          ranger
          hockey
          computer
          starwars
          asshole
          pepper
          klaster
          112233
          zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
          freedom
          princess
          maggie
          pass
          ginger
          11111111
          131313
          f*ck // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
          love
          cheese
          159753
          summer
          chelsea
          dallas
          biteme
          matrix
          yankees
          6969
          corvette
          austin

          Edit Update Here are the contents of the manifest.json file:

          {
          "description": "zxcvbn data component",
          "name": "zxcvbnData",
          "version": "3.0.0.0"
          }

          I think that pretty much explains it. :~ :rolleyes:

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          Indivara
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          Its from this [GitHub - dropbox/zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation](https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn) Apparently Edge (or MS in general) uses it

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            Its from this [GitHub - dropbox/zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation](https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn) Apparently Edge (or MS in general) uses it

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            raddevus
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            Thanks for posting that. I was curious about where it came from. :thumbsup:

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            • D DerekT P

              Yep, over 3700 female names but less than 1000 male. My (middle-eastern, but pretty common) next-door neighbour's isn't in there, nor the leaders of two countries commonly in the news at the moment, nor the designer of the Eiffel tower, nor even a recent US president. And as for surnames: neither part of my double-barrelled name is there, nor my wife's maiden name, nor my daughter-in-law's maiden name, nor that same ex-president. Someone at MS isn't trying very hard. But at least the film texts includes both aaaaaaaaah and that other classic, aaaaaaaaaa (and they spelt it correctly!)

              Telegraph marker posts ... nothing to do with IT Phasmid email discussion group ... also nothing to do with IT Beekeeping and honey site ... still nothing to do with IT

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              dandy72
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              Clearly it's not meant to be a very exhaustive list, which leads me to ask...what is this intended to be used for anyway?

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              • B BryanFazekas

                Actually, being a touch-typist means you're LESS likely to notice. I type moderately fast (60-80 wpm), but if you ask me where a given key is located, I have to think about it. I've been typing long enough that my fingers do what is necessary without conscious thought.

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                James Curran
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                But a regular PC user should recognize Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste.

                Truth, James

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                • B BryanFazekas

                  Actually, being a touch-typist means you're LESS likely to notice. I type moderately fast (60-80 wpm), but if you ask me where a given key is located, I have to think about it. I've been typing long enough that my fingers do what is necessary without conscious thought.

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                  sasadler
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                  Yep, kind of why I think lighted keyboards are pretty useless for me.

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                  • R raddevus

                    I wrote a program that watches the files which are created, updated, deleted, etc on your disk (Read about it here on CP[^]). Wow, that was gratuitous self-promotion and it didn't even feel like it. :laugh: Anyways, I had DiscoFiles running and I noticed that MS Edge directories were accessed. MS Edge Secrets I looked in this MS Edge directory and found its secrets... You can get to it on your system (If you are running Edge) at:

                    %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\ZxcvbnData\3.0.0.0

                    I mean I'm assuming that last directory will be named ZxcvbnData on yours too?? Copy-Paste to your FileExplorer and it'll get you there. You can see that there[^]. It's a list of files named:

                    english_wikipedia.txt
                    female_names.txt
                    male_names.txt
                    manifest.fingerprint
                    manifest.json
                    passwords.txt
                    surnames.txt
                    us_tv_and_film.txt

                    What!?! Well, passwords is a lot of fun. Check it out. FYI - the passwords file is 30,000 lines long (30,000 common / bad passwords)

                    sunshine
                    iloveyou
                    f*ckme // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                    ranger
                    hockey
                    computer
                    starwars
                    asshole
                    pepper
                    klaster
                    112233
                    zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
                    freedom
                    princess
                    maggie
                    pass
                    ginger
                    11111111
                    131313
                    f*ck // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                    love
                    cheese
                    159753
                    summer
                    chelsea
                    dallas
                    biteme
                    matrix
                    yankees
                    6969
                    corvette
                    austin

                    Edit Update Here are the contents of the manifest.json file:

                    {
                    "description": "zxcvbn data component",
                    "name": "zxcvbnData",
                    "version": "3.0.0.0"
                    }

                    I think that pretty much explains it. :~ :rolleyes:

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                    sasadler
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                    I only use Edge on one website. For some reason I can't sign into the website without using Edge, both Vivaldi and Firefox don't work on that particular site.

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                    • S sasadler

                      I only use Edge on one website. For some reason I can't sign into the website without using Edge, both Vivaldi and Firefox don't work on that particular site.

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                      raddevus
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                      sasadler wrote:

                      I only use Edge on one website.

                      I have a healthcare site that will not work on FireFox. When I attempt to login, it tells me that the ID doesn't exist. But that isn't true, of course. It's very odd that it tells me a totally incorrect error and doesn't just fail some other way. I use Brave (chrome-based) and then the site works perfectly fine. Edge is chrome-based also.

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                      • R raddevus

                        I wrote a program that watches the files which are created, updated, deleted, etc on your disk (Read about it here on CP[^]). Wow, that was gratuitous self-promotion and it didn't even feel like it. :laugh: Anyways, I had DiscoFiles running and I noticed that MS Edge directories were accessed. MS Edge Secrets I looked in this MS Edge directory and found its secrets... You can get to it on your system (If you are running Edge) at:

                        %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\ZxcvbnData\3.0.0.0

                        I mean I'm assuming that last directory will be named ZxcvbnData on yours too?? Copy-Paste to your FileExplorer and it'll get you there. You can see that there[^]. It's a list of files named:

                        english_wikipedia.txt
                        female_names.txt
                        male_names.txt
                        manifest.fingerprint
                        manifest.json
                        passwords.txt
                        surnames.txt
                        us_tv_and_film.txt

                        What!?! Well, passwords is a lot of fun. Check it out. FYI - the passwords file is 30,000 lines long (30,000 common / bad passwords)

                        sunshine
                        iloveyou
                        f*ckme // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                        ranger
                        hockey
                        computer
                        starwars
                        asshole
                        pepper
                        klaster
                        112233
                        zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
                        freedom
                        princess
                        maggie
                        pass
                        ginger
                        11111111
                        131313
                        f*ck // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                        love
                        cheese
                        159753
                        summer
                        chelsea
                        dallas
                        biteme
                        matrix
                        yankees
                        6969
                        corvette
                        austin

                        Edit Update Here are the contents of the manifest.json file:

                        {
                        "description": "zxcvbn data component",
                        "name": "zxcvbnData",
                        "version": "3.0.0.0"
                        }

                        I think that pretty much explains it. :~ :rolleyes:

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                        jurluk
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                        #35

                        Nothing particularly secret there. Just one google search away: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

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                        • R raddevus

                          sasadler wrote:

                          I only use Edge on one website.

                          I have a healthcare site that will not work on FireFox. When I attempt to login, it tells me that the ID doesn't exist. But that isn't true, of course. It's very odd that it tells me a totally incorrect error and doesn't just fail some other way. I use Brave (chrome-based) and then the site works perfectly fine. Edge is chrome-based also.

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                          sasadler
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                          Vivaldi is based on chrome too but it doesn't work.

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                          • S sasadler

                            Vivaldi is based on chrome too but it doesn't work.

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                            raddevus
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                            #37

                            sasadler wrote:

                            Vivaldi is based on chrome too but it doesn't work

                            Interesting. I wonder what it is on these browser that fails.

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                            • R raddevus

                              I wrote a program that watches the files which are created, updated, deleted, etc on your disk (Read about it here on CP[^]). Wow, that was gratuitous self-promotion and it didn't even feel like it. :laugh: Anyways, I had DiscoFiles running and I noticed that MS Edge directories were accessed. MS Edge Secrets I looked in this MS Edge directory and found its secrets... You can get to it on your system (If you are running Edge) at:

                              %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\ZxcvbnData\3.0.0.0

                              I mean I'm assuming that last directory will be named ZxcvbnData on yours too?? Copy-Paste to your FileExplorer and it'll get you there. You can see that there[^]. It's a list of files named:

                              english_wikipedia.txt
                              female_names.txt
                              male_names.txt
                              manifest.fingerprint
                              manifest.json
                              passwords.txt
                              surnames.txt
                              us_tv_and_film.txt

                              What!?! Well, passwords is a lot of fun. Check it out. FYI - the passwords file is 30,000 lines long (30,000 common / bad passwords)

                              sunshine
                              iloveyou
                              f*ckme // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                              ranger
                              hockey
                              computer
                              starwars
                              asshole
                              pepper
                              klaster
                              112233
                              zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
                              freedom
                              princess
                              maggie
                              pass
                              ginger
                              11111111
                              131313
                              f*ck // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                              love
                              cheese
                              159753
                              summer
                              chelsea
                              dallas
                              biteme
                              matrix
                              yankees
                              6969
                              corvette
                              austin

                              Edit Update Here are the contents of the manifest.json file:

                              {
                              "description": "zxcvbn data component",
                              "name": "zxcvbnData",
                              "version": "3.0.0.0"
                              }

                              I think that pretty much explains it. :~ :rolleyes:

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                              Nelek
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                              #38

                              raddevus wrote:

                              zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!

                              Qwerty was already taken... so they just went two rows below.... :rolleyes:

                              M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                              • R raddevus

                                I wrote a program that watches the files which are created, updated, deleted, etc on your disk (Read about it here on CP[^]). Wow, that was gratuitous self-promotion and it didn't even feel like it. :laugh: Anyways, I had DiscoFiles running and I noticed that MS Edge directories were accessed. MS Edge Secrets I looked in this MS Edge directory and found its secrets... You can get to it on your system (If you are running Edge) at:

                                %localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\ZxcvbnData\3.0.0.0

                                I mean I'm assuming that last directory will be named ZxcvbnData on yours too?? Copy-Paste to your FileExplorer and it'll get you there. You can see that there[^]. It's a list of files named:

                                english_wikipedia.txt
                                female_names.txt
                                male_names.txt
                                manifest.fingerprint
                                manifest.json
                                passwords.txt
                                surnames.txt
                                us_tv_and_film.txt

                                What!?! Well, passwords is a lot of fun. Check it out. FYI - the passwords file is 30,000 lines long (30,000 common / bad passwords)

                                sunshine
                                iloveyou
                                f*ckme // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                                ranger
                                hockey
                                computer
                                starwars
                                asshole
                                pepper
                                klaster
                                112233
                                zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
                                freedom
                                princess
                                maggie
                                pass
                                ginger
                                11111111
                                131313
                                f*ck // my alteration to protect any kid sisters who are reading
                                love
                                cheese
                                159753
                                summer
                                chelsea
                                dallas
                                biteme
                                matrix
                                yankees
                                6969
                                corvette
                                austin

                                Edit Update Here are the contents of the manifest.json file:

                                {
                                "description": "zxcvbn data component",
                                "name": "zxcvbnData",
                                "version": "3.0.0.0"
                                }

                                I think that pretty much explains it. :~ :rolleyes:

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                                Daniel Wilianto
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                                Are they using those to warn user when they picked a common password which is among those 30k? The real question is, why aren't those common password saved in a condition which is sorted alphabetically? What a waste of computing resource.

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                                • C CodeZombie62

                                  I seem to recall using some Hazeltine terminals that didn’t have lowercase back in the early 80’s in college.

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                                  Alister Morton
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                                  The (mechanical) teletype terminals I used at school in the 70s only had upper case. The delete character was shifted O and it was a standing joke to say "Oh-shift ;I've mistyped!"

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                                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                    I'm not very impressed with male_names.txt - it's not even close to complete. OriginalGriff isn't even in there!

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                                    Alister Morton
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                                    A very incomplete list indeed.

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