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    6.5 million LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-574...leaked-online/

    never signed up for this site personally, but holy **** that's a lot of passwords.

    #2
    Changed my password for that the minute I heard about it, thankfully (of course this happens after I get laid off)...no chances taken. Dammit, hackers...
    The three stages of [whatever] fandom:

    1. "OMG IT'S COMING!!!"
    2. "OMG IT'S HERE!!!!!"
    3. "....wait a minute. This isn't the Second Coming! This sucks!"


    Originally posted by Qb2k5
    I like them tall and petite.

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      #3
      what's the point having passwords nowadays....

      edit: holy crap changing password is hard to find, have changed it now but daym
      Last edited by JonZ; Jun 6, 2012, 11:33 AM.
      gone

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        #4
        Originally posted by JonZ View Post
        what's the point having passwords nowadays....
        So they can be stolen, of course.
        The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting. - Carl Schurz

        RIP Jesse

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          #5
          Fan-frikkin-tastic.
          Ben Franklin once said that "A man that will give up some freedom for security, deserves neither freedom or security".

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            #6
            meh I closed the account not like it was any use any ways since I don't have a job in IT any more and likely won't at any point in the future.

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              #7
              I have forgotten my password and used my work email adress of 8 years ago. So I can't get password recovery.

              Maybe I should check the leaked list for my password.

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                #8
                The sad part is, on LinkedIn you have a HUGE amount of people who work in the web services industry with profiles who just had their passwords for LinkedIn leaked. I hope all these industry professionals are right now changing passwords a the office if they're similar to passwords on LinkedIn.
                "I'll admit it. I did try and **** her, she was married."
                "I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married."
                "I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
                "Grab them by the pussy."

                ~Donald J. Trump
                "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, is that so far none of it has tried to contact us." ~ Calvin & Hobbes
                "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ John F. Kennedy (1962)

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                  #9
                  Just changed mine. Thanks for the heads up.

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                    #10
                    Password -> changed..
                    It was in dire need of a change anyways..lolz

                    Thanks!
                    For main PC *see specs*

                    Other: Asus EEE 1005HA / Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz / 1GB / 160 GB HDD / Windows 7

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                      #11
                      They didn't even bother to salt the hashes.

                      http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2254400
                      Darwin and Tesla.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by andyfowler View Post
                        They didn't even bother to salt the hashes.

                        http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2254400




                        I changed my password. Where is the location of this leaked list?
                        The Core Value: Non-Aggression :(

                        Originally posted by HyperNovae
                        Origin says if you are benchmarking or something to just call and they will help you out. God the horror, those poor souls. This is the type of orwellian nightmare Alex Jones told me about.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by CoolNitro View Post
                          meh I closed the account not like it was any use any ways since I don't have a job in IT any more and likely won't at any point in the future.
                          linkedin is not just for IT workers.

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