I had changed the SSH password on something so I had to dig through my known hosts file, and saw the word FUCK spelled out in there in all caps. I chuckled but am sure there’s an explanation

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    I think I got “cunT” once and gave myself a heart attack because I thought I had accidentally committed a frustrated debugging log message to a work repo. I found it while searching for swears but it was in a file I hadn’t changed

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      frustrated debugging log message

      Just use porn actresses’ names. Or so a friend told me…

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    We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂

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    The explanation is that it’s random. Generate enough random strings and you’re bound to get everything.

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      my old technology teacher told me about one time his ssh key was the whole soliloquy from hamlet.

      then he turned himself into a fuckin pickle. craziest thing I ever seent

      EDIT nvm?

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    I know that “Vanity Addresses” are a common thing for onion sites, and there are tools which generate tons of keys looking for prefixes. I haven’t seen such a tool for ssh host keys though.