On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
In December Rockyou.com was hacked and out of it cam a list of passwords of which the most popular was "123456" and "Password". These have been the ever popular passwords that have been used and it is strongly advised to stop. Imperva studied the breached passwords and has published an interesting study that talks about them. Of the 32 million passwords exposed , "123456" was the most commonly used, followed by "12345" and "123456789." The list of the 20 most commonly used passwords, and the number of accounts which used them, includes: "123456" in 290,731 accounts "12345" in 78,078 accounts "123456789" in 76,790 accounts "Password" in 61,958 accounts "iloveyou" in 51,622 accounts "princess" in 35,231 accounts "rockyou" in 22,588 accounts "1234567" in 21,726 accounts "12345678" in 20,553 accounts "abc123" in 17,542 accounts "Nic...