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[tinyjo]

Malicious Security Crackers: "We used to take an account and try out about 40,000 passwords on it in about 5 seconds to see if it would unlock. LJ doesn't let us do that anymore. Damn that LJ! We'll show them! Here, have a malicious script!"
Malicious script: *takes 5 most commonly used passwords, tries them on 40,000 different accounts*
4000 LJ accounts: *unlock*
Malicious Security Crackers: "Score!"
LJ Geeks: "O RLY."
LJ: *stops allowing even remotely easy passwords*
4000 LJ users: "Hey! That was a perfectly good password! Why'd you make me change it?"
LJ Support: *facepalm*

See http://azurelunatic.livejournal.com/4817217.html for this and the rest of the story of what LJ has been up to this week :)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Well, style "yours" is the "yours" of whoever the "you" is logged in. Transparent to the person whose friendslist does the thing, transparent to other people who have this as their default, but can be confusing for innocent bystanders.