Batman Password

[Bok Wykes]

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Being the father of a five-year-old son, my first order of business last weekend was to see the new Lego Batman Movie. (Confession: I would have gone anyway.) Also because of the aforementioned son, I've seen every trailer for this film that's been released over the past year. So I noticed when lines of dialogue in the movie differed from the same scenes in the trailers. This seems, anecdotally, to be something that happens more frequently these days (e.g., the absence of Jyn Erso's "I rebel" line in Rogue One). In most cases, it's probably due to the increasing pressure on studios to make trailers slick mini-movies in their own right that compel audiences to attend.

One edit in particular, though, struck me as having a different explanation. When Lego Batman flies his jet into the Batcave in the trailers, he gives his computer (Siri) the password "na na na na Batman" (to the tune of the 1960's theme song). In the film, however, the password (given not once, but twice, and with gusto) is "Iron Man Sucks!"

That's funny for all sorts of reasons. The DC and Marvel comic book universes are chock full of characters that are basically clones of each other. Batman and Iron Man are the billionaire, playboy, non-superpowered tech wizards of their respective fictional realms, and have a lot more in common than not. Iron Man is the cash cow of the Marvel cinematic universe, so throwing some shade on him was a natural choice.

To understand why requires a basic understanding of trademark law, and how it differs from copyright. See, copyright protects creative expression, including fictional characters. So, if Iron Man himself had been depicted in Lego Batman, that might have been a copyright problem. (Stressing the "might" here, since it's neither my place nor my intent to express an opinion on whether it might have been fair use or otherwise defensible.) But the character's name, in and of itself, is not copyrightable.

Trademark law, on the other hand, is not about protecting the rights of trademark owners per se. Rather, its purpose is to prevent consumers from being confused as to the source of the goods or services they encounter in the marketplace. Trademarks have historically had a trickier relationship with the First Amendment, because (unlike copyrights) the Constitution does not directly guarantee trademark rights. They arise only out of Congress' ability to regulate commerce. The likelihood of customer confusion, therefore, is always the central factor determining whether someone has infringed a trademark.

That's why filmmakers are almost always safe using a trademark in movie dialogue; they're engaging in creative expression, not selling anything. As it happens, Batman himself reinforced this principle in a case challenging the use of a real trademark to describe a fictional product in The Dark Knight Rises.

Trailers, on the other hand, are advertisements for a movie. It is at least arguable, therefore, that trailers are commercial speech. If DC had used Marvel's IRON MAN trademark in a trailer, therefore, it's likewise foreseeable that someone might allege that to be confusing to customers and, therefore, infringing. (Again, not expressing any opinion on that--especially since the mark is used in a derogatory manner; just observing that someone might make the claim.) Unlike Batman and Iron Man, trademark lawyers employed by studios do not become heroes by pushing the envelope. Their goal is to avoid getting into unnecessary arguments, even if they might have ultimately won them in court.

This hasn't much to do with Magit. If you configure Git correctly, then it also works in Magit. Either use a ssh key or credential.helper. I recommend the former, but then you also have to configure an ssh-agent and how that is done might differ between distributions.

I guess the made up login in this file has to match the made up username in the git configuration. This actually worked for me with no login in authinfo, just machine github.com password ghp_123456789409234532843, except if you have multiple github accounts and PATs, I hope adding the login will get the right PAT for the account every time.

However, I am working on a raspberry pi over tramp, and the pi is left on a desk, and unencrypted, so I am not comfortable leaving a github PAT on it - which is how I found this question in a duckduckgo search.

Apparently, a lot of people use pop culture references for their passwords, and they also have poor password hygiene. In other words, they use common names for their passwords, and they repeat them across multiple accounts. The big positive is that this is easy to remember. The big negative is it makes all of your online accounts vulnerable if just one of them is hacked.

Most of the references appear to trend a bit toward older cultural icons, so perhaps younger people are being smarter about their passwords. If you insist on creating your own passwords, here are some ideas on how to do it while staying safe and secure.

Maike M. Raphael, Leibniz University Hannover; Aikaterini Kanta, University of Portsmouth; Rico Seebonn and Markus Drmuth, Leibniz University Hannover; Camille Cobb, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Password security is and will likely remain an issue that non-experts have to deal with. It is therefore important that they understand the criteria of secure passwords and the characteristics of good password behavior. Related literature indicates that people often acquire knowledge from media such as movies, which influences their perceptions about cybersecurity including their mindset about passwords. We contribute a novel approach based on subtitles and an analysis of the depiction of passwords and password behavior in movies. We scanned subtitles of 97,709 movies from 1960 to 2022 for password appearance and analyzed resulting scenes from 2,851 movies using mixed methods to show what people could learn from watching movies. Selected films were viewed for an in-depth analysis.

Among other things, we find that passwords are often portrayed as weak and easy to guess, but there are different contexts of use with very strong passwords. Password hacking is frequently depicted as unrealistically powerful, potentially leading to a sense of helplessness and futility of security efforts. In contrast, password guessing is shown as quite realistic and with a lower (but still overestimated) success rate. There appears to be a lack of best practices as password managers and multi-factor authentication are practically non-existent.

Umm. Just want to be thorough. You should always have a Default Domain Policy, and it should always contain a password policy - could just be an emotional response from me, but the fact that MS released tools specifically designed to recreate and/or reset the two default GPOs to OOBE condition implies that they should probably be left in place.

After giving plenty of fair warning to all of the users, I would have just bumped the minimum password age in the Default Domain Policy using the cmdlet I referenced above and called it a day. If not contrary to the requirements, I would have also bumped the lockout counter to not less that 5 - maybe even as much as 10.

Well aware that many employees reuse corporate passwords on e-commerce sites and social networks, cybercriminals hack these third-party sites with the explicit purpose of extracting those user databases. If you have used the same password on a hacked public site and your work email account, you might be giving cybercriminals the key to your corporate network.

Security leaders can encourage employees to utilize safer password practices to help ensure company data isn't compromised. The report provided the following guidelines to help build stronger passwords:

A complex password is one that contains at least 12 characters and a variety of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Using a password generator is the easiest way to create complex passwords.

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I emailed an address from messageboards at www.arkhamcare.com and got the following reply, thought you may be interested- Twitter feed and login details for extra information... where will all this lead, and will it involve in-game research to solve? Impressed so far

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