Super Bowl's SUPER BALLSUP: CBS broadcasts Wi-Fi password The Super Bowl's security nerve centre was billed as a "secret, first of its kind" unit. But that claim was kicked into touch out of bounds after CBS accidentally screened the base's Wi-Fi password. CBS show This Morning was screening a report on the super strict security operation when the camera panned across the room to …
@james 100
while you are correct , marko can be a username, the point being made is that in THIS case its more than 99.99999% NOT a username and is a WiFi network name, the big clue being the part of the text in the picture beside it that labels it ; xSID , and the heading that includes the text WiFi Access
as sure as Mannings Right Arm !!!
"Just to add insult to injury, the password was rubbish, featuring the word "welcome" with a few numbers."
The password displayed was w3Lc0m3!HERE
12 characters long, mix of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. Decent entropy (number seems to vary depending on what site you ask).
You may not think it's as secure as LnzujrfAI5489u!#$a832PT, but rubbish? I wouldn't go that far.
"battery horse correct stable" isn't particularly easy to remember!
See it was actually "correct horse battery staple"
O.k. I didn't try very hard to remember it but even if I did after a few days I'd quite expect to get it wrong.
n.b. I do remember 20+ passwords I use most weeks o.k. but do have to resort to obfuscated notes for hard infrequently used ones.
"but rubbish? I wouldn't go that far."
It's rubbish if you want anyone to remember it without having to write it down in big letters so users can connect.
Also, using WPA-PSK (or WPA2-PSK) when your budget is very large is spastic. If you can afford to have massive monitors on the wall, you can afford to add a RADIUS server and do it properly.
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'Welcome here' - odd, because that's exactly what the Broncos defence said to the Seahawks, every single time they got anywhere near the end-zone. So much so that they obliging handed over a safety with the very first play.
Hopefully both the Broncos and the command centre will hopefully be beefing up their security in the off-season.
That is actually the official New Jersey State Trooper uniform except he's taken off his hat. It is very similar to the Gestapo one except they have a really wide yellow stripe down the outside seam on the trousers and a sever lack of iron crosses.
Some of them behave like they're in the gestapo too, but the two I know personally are decent folks trying to a difficult job with morons in senior management positions - very similar to many IT positions.
Stripes down leg coverings? I call them divideby's because you can guess someone's IQ by looking at the top half and then divide that by the number of strips down the tracky bottoms.
Luckily those with more than about four stripes normally don't survive the traffic so are rarely spotted.
I've actually been made to cry by a New Jersey State Police Officer. I was like, 13 at the time, the school bus I was on was full of rowdy hooligans and maniacs who were making it so difficult for the driver to do her job that she pulled into the parking lot at the barracks and had some State Troopers climb aboard to put the fear of Johnny Law into them.
I was not and never have been a hooligan. I actually used "Yes sir," and "No, sir," as responses when he was chewing the rest of them out. He called me out on it, thought I was mocking him, and chewed me out, personally, for disrespecting his authoritah!, and my protestations that that was the exact opposite of what I was doing only got him more annoyed at me and made him chew me out more.
That said, that was 15 years ago.
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