New: A government watchdog spent less than $15,000 to build a password-cracking rig capable of unscrambling thousands of Dept. of the Interior employee passwords in a matter of minutes.
Some of the agency's passwords were as simple as "Polar_bear65" and "Nationalparks2014!"
More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/interior-department-watchdog-passwords/
Elon Musk claimed he fixed Twitter's verification system to stop verifying impostors.
So our columnist @geoffreyfowler tested it again--and again was able to get a blue checkmark (and go viral) impersonating a U.S. Senator. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/05/twitter-blue-verification/