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Pretty sneaky, sys!(admin)

Oof. I hope the 4 thing dies out quicker than the 6 7 thing did. lol.

I'm upvoting them all today because it's still fresh, even though I'm already over it. But yeah, dunno about after today. lol.

Do we get a new number of the day tomorrow after having worn out 4? 😆

Ironically, I've seen four of these memes in a row in my feed

what is this referring to? not in infosec at all lol

Ironically, "four" is a much better password than a single character.

Not hugely. A single word dictionary attack is still a very low bar.

I've seen at least six to seven or so. heh

At least it has an actual meaning, unlike 67.

The headline is:
One of the private keys protecting part of the global HTTPS trust system was, according to a report from The Register published October 20, 2026, the number 4. Not a 384-bit cryptographic value. Just the digit 4.

More info here:
https://tech-insider.org/emudhra-ca-private-keys-compromised-number-4-2026/

Hey, it'll at least save a few more microseconds.

The next one will be 6. As it's a perfect number there isn't any further improvement possible.

I watched that around six or seven times ;-)

To be precise, it was 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:04

I'm voting for 2 as the oddest prime.

To be fair, that is a potential random value

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I miss connect 4 memes

The way his fist is raised, and the way she is covering her eye, kind of make it look like he just punched her in the face.

Wow someone actually took that xkcd comic seriously.