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hunter2

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I love a good in-joke.

Spoilers: http://bash.org/?244321

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What did you search for? When you type hunter2 all I see are stars.

Copied the stars and then pasted that into CTRL-F

Fun fact: You have to escape the stars for them to show up on IRC. Otherwise people see their password!

Does it work for usernames?

Here, check mine:

    8ftpenissurvivor

What does that show up as?

Whenever you type that, all I see is "1-7-3-4-6-7-3-2-1-4-7-6-Charlie-3-2-7-8-9-7-7-7-6-4-3-Tango-7-3-2-Victor-7-3-1-1-7-8-8-8-7-3-2-4-7-6-7-8-9-7-6-4-3-7-6

I can't see this without claiming the nerd cred of being the first to identify it as the password Data uses to lock out the computer in the ST:TNG episode "Brothers".

For extra credit, I will point out (which you may not know EGreg?) that the password he speaks verbally, and the password that appears on the display visually, are NOT the same and differ by a few digits near the end, a small mistake in production.

The code that Data says: 173467321476C32789777643T732V73117888732476789764376

The code on the screen (in upper case letters) 17346721476C3278977763T732V731171888732476789764376

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUVUUhf7U0

Weird, I see 223269?

Wouldn't searching for * * * * * * * yield more than 4 matches?

Is it someone's fiction?

I am wheezing

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