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Infosec/AppSec SME, author | Windows security, passwords, identity | @m8urnett@infosec.exchange | https://t.co/H5iFdGFdVP | @m8urnett.bsky.social

Aug 13, 2018, 18 tweets

I was looking at some 𝑸𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒏 posts and saw this one with "codes" which I find pretty interesting considering how many years I have spent staring at and analyzing millions passwords...

Presumably, this is a communication between Q and some other unknown operatives who have chosen 8chan as their means of communication...

The codes and "Route T" stuff make it look like some serious spy communications, but I noticed something about the codes...

Almost all the characters either alternate between left/right hand or are right next to each other on the keyboard...

So I want you to all type along:
2-8-2-1-2-9-8-3-8-2-1-2-8-1-7-2-3-9-u-7-2-1

and if you split them apart by left/right hand, you get this:
2212321123121 and
88988879y7

Now looking at the other code:
AB-aKd&Egh281Q you see that they are almost all on the same keyboard row

The funny thing about people is that even when we type random stuff we tend to have a signature. This guy, for example, likes to have his hand on the ends of each side of the keyboard (e.g., 1,2,3 and 7,8,9) and alternate...

He also goes in both directions (as opposed to asdf) which can often mean it's someone who plays a musical instrument.

The code AB-aKd&Egh281Q was most certainly typed on a qwerty keyboard, considering that most of those characters are on the same row and the ones that aren't are near a previous letter of either the right or left hand...

So my conclusion here is these are not actual codes, just random typing by someone who might play an instrument and uses a qwerty keyboard.

Here's another random "code" that follows the same pattern.

Here are two more again with the same patterns:

I have to say, he definitely knows the language of conspiracy theorists.

Now here is a code that does not follow the other patterns at all. Make your own conclusions.

Here are a bunch of his "codes" if anyone else likes staring at patterns: gist.github.com/m8urnett/971a1…

This logic is amazing:

If you just take the codes I posted earlier, stripping out all words, this is what the keyboard heatmap looks like.

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