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Comment by radarsat1 | Hacker News Reader

You can just randomize the string and pixelize that, it should look roughly the same aesthetically without leaking any information.

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Or write something funny/rude/misleading

hunter2

What is funny or rude about *******? Is this supposed to be some 7-letter curse word or something? I don't get it.

HN automatically hides your password when you input it into the comments, like mine is ******, to me it shows up as ******, but to you you see ******.

Does it do this predictively or intuitively somehow? How does it know your password? Is it keeping it as clear text on the client side?

it hashes all the substrings you type to check for collisions.e.g. *****

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2

It is a joke to see who will post their passwords.

alifatisk2022

if there was any doubt, what you have written is your username with the year behind it and if that is your password you should change it immediately.

http://bash.org/?244321 Lol

Oh man. Top 100 link at bottom is great. I just spent a good 15 minutes laughing

I just did the same. Probably do it every ten years. Thank you!

I haven't laughed this much in a long time. Thank you!

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, witch!

By randomize, I assume you don't mean shuffle the characters, but replace it with an entirely different string?

Yes.

What you mention would be a random permutation, which seems vialirt ot vercore given its small search space.

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