Finally we have created the random number "4" from the famous XKCD strip "do not just make your random number 4"
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@2003MugishaPhocit it's a joke, kind of—
Imagine this company had been given an account on the most important computer on the Internet and they set their password to "4". Just 4
@mcc okay,
I was wondering, but thanks for letting me know.
Meanwhile, can I let you know about my work that I do in Central Uganda?
@mcc 4 is unlucky 2 Chinese!
@gregsbrain Hello, is it possible you meant to send this as a reply to a different post?
@mcc Oops, wasn't supposed to be a reply to anything.
@gregsbrain it is very easy to do that by accident, on mastodon
@mcc Slightly surprised the private keys were not 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
@mcc For people out of the loop like me: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/
(Not that easy to Google, mind you. 😅)
Anyway you can tell they were XKCD readers instead of Dilbert readers because the random number from Dilbert was "9"
@mcc my usual non-secure "random" number is the store ID of a 7-11 I worked for in the 1980's. The store is long gone, but somehow I still remember the ID.
@mcc How is this helpful?
I am asking because I lack the knowledge of random 4