Quote from: mrb on July 03, 2011, 02:20:07 AM

Quote from: mewantsbitcoins on July 01, 2011, 02:21:50 AM

You must be retarded. Why would I disclose my password and my thinking pattern? So it can be added to dictionaries and future attacks? No thank you.

This statement indicates that your password was insecure.

If all it takes to risk guessing your password is to know your password generation logic, then the breach of any of the dozens of websites on which you have a password-protected account, may have helped the attacker in guessing your password. What happens when a password hash leak occur is that attackers generate candidate passwords based on bruteforcing results from previous leaks (Gawker, phpbb, MySpace, etc). They read them, try to understand how users picked them, and they adjust the mangling rules in their bruteforcers.

Also you would not be the first one to think your password was relatively secure when in fact it turned out to be complete crap (this guy claimed his password was secure, and even lied about its length, when it was in fact "rascal101").

That statement does not indicate shit.
I don't have any account with your mentioned sites or sites that have been hacked. I am extremely paranoid and use one time identities and one time passwords for different sites/forums/communities. Even if some site was hacked that we don't know about, attackers would never be able to tie them to this one. Go ahead and try to find info about mewantsbitcoins or any other identifies tied to it.
The reason why I don't post my password is because if someone really wanted to target me, this would give them advantage, however small. Anyone with half a brain and basic understanding of IT security would do the same.

Anyway, I'm not here to argue about security practices. I don't think my password was secure - I know it was. I only came back here and posted what I thought because people seem to be mislead by this "clarification" bs.

From what I've seen I can conclude with certainty that Mark is incompetent and greedy and it is just a matter of time before this will happen again. It is unfortunate that some people are too thick to realize they are going to lose their money. But I am not even very worried about them - they deserve everything they get. What I'm worried about is the image of bitcoin and articles in press. It is very difficult to bring in new, serious people, when our major exchange is a joke.