This Alphabet Soup Requires Multi-Factor Authentication
Description
This meme presents a simple yet clever visual pun. The image shows a close-up of a bowl of alphabet soup, but instead of letter-shaped pasta, the soup is filled entirely with small, asterisk-shaped pasta. The overlaid text reads, 'When your alphabet soup is password protected...'. The humor lies in the direct comparison of the asterisk pasta to the common practice of masking password entry fields in user interfaces with asterisks for security. It's a relatable joke for anyone who has ever typed a password online, but especially for developers and IT professionals who implement or frequently interact with these security features
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I bet the password is 'hunter2' but all I see is '*******'
Our cafeteria’s alphabet soup now runs PBKDF2 - every letter hashes into star pasta and the carrots are just extra salt; UX is livid, the CISO says it’s finally seasoned right
After 20 years in tech, I've finally found the perfect password manager - Campbell's Chunky. It generates truly random strings, never stores them in plaintext, and the only vulnerability is when someone's hungry enough to perform a brute-force consumption attack
This is what your production database credentials look like after the security team mandates 64-character randomly generated passwords with special characters, but you still have to manually type them during that 3 AM incident because someone forgot to rotate the secrets manager key and now the automation is locked out. At least it's not 'Password123' anymore - though honestly, the alphabet soup might be easier to remember than the base64-encoded JWT token you're currently using as a temporary workaround
Enterprise password policies: enforcing perfect Shannon entropy, delivering Post-it note graveyards since '01
Like most password fields, this soup adds zero bits of entropy and 100% UX friction - classic misreading of NIST 800-63
Alphabet soup displaying ***** - security theater at its tastiest: UI masking while the actual password sits in plaintext in the logs
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I don't get it, can anyone explain? Comment deleted
it's an alphabet soup but every character is an "*" Comment deleted