FBI's most wanted cyber-criminal nabbed: password discovered to be his cat, 123

I wonder if that's a lie for the public so that they don't have to reveal the method they actually used to get his password.

Most of those anonymous guys were rookie kids just messing around with powerful tools. Not all of them of course but even in Lulzsec, which was known to be the better of the lot, only two turned out to be the hackers who did most of the work IIRC. But it only takes one to take down the rest.

I just came across one of their Wikipedias and it turns out one of the Lulzsec guys was doing blockchain stuff recently that got acquired by Facebook and is now part of Libra which is a bit... ironic. But to be fair he later said:

> Al-Bassam has since been critical of Libra, stating that "the road to dystopia is paved with good intentions, and I'm concerned about Libra's model for decentralization".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Al-Bassam

Article is from 2014. Year should be appended to the post title.

If I had a plausible deniability partition I would put an easy password on it as well.

They say it's an encrypted disk. It could have a "safety layer" with an easy to guess password.

Either way FBI doesn't need to know anyone's password IMO. People call me pessimistic or unsophisticated for it but i genuinely believe in the eyes of state actors, you really do not have any privacy. They have access to so many lives, they only complain about getting lost in the data (e.g. failing to detect threats).

I figured this was an Onion article before I opened it.

Reminds me of this: https://xkpasswd.net/s/

>By Mark Molloy and AP 4:09PM GMT 13 Nov 2014

[2014]

OOPSEC Fail