November 28, 2025: The Password Is "password," All One Word, Lowercase

I'm sure by now you've heard about the daring-but-kind-of-silly jewel heist at the Louvre in October. It's not really related, but I was amused that, according to PC Gamer (summarizing from French newspaper Libération), the password on the Louvre's security system was:

Louvre

Yeahhhh. I feel kind of bad about the times I've yelled at movies for having crazy-obvious one-word passwords, rather than whatever random 20-character protection I force my password-storing software to keep track of . . . which, of course, I keep secure with "password."

As an aside, our Daily Illuminator uploader automatically capitalizes the first letter of each headline word, meaning I needed to specifically "hack in" to tweak the coding and make its joke work . . .

-- Steven Marsh