Despite the fact that nobody bothers to crack your web passwords, as it’s easier for them to crack the entire server and scoop out everyone’s personally sensitive bits like so much caviar, all websites remind / require you to pick strong passwords. So, when I registered myself on a high-value website, I did what I always do: ask my password-generation program for a dollop of entropy.
It came up with something along the lines of:
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You can see where this is going, right?
Pressing Submit (which always makes me whisper Inshallah with a bad accent) produced:
The mumble.com website is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
Little Bobby Tables rides again!
[Yes, pwnage.]
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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I became fond of the neologism “pwned” when used car dealers tried to euphemize “used cars” into “pre-owned cars”. I struck back by mentally referring to them as “pre-pwned” cars. Seems fairly apt. Were I a vandal, I could modify the signs to match with a quick stroke of paint.
Around here, you can even get Certified pre-owned cars. As if you needed assurance that someone else had been driving them for a few years!
With all their user-level computerization, genuine “pre-pwned” cars should arrive in short order.
A friend of mine owned a car with an in-dash blah blah blah computer. Another very clever friend managed to hack it so when friend A started up the car, the Rick Astley video “Never gonna give you up” played continuously on the in-dash display. (I don’t think he got the sound to work, unfortunately.)
A rolling Rickroll…
That should appear on hackaday!