A crossword based on the Adobe password leak

[apitaru]

This is a great implementation, and super fun in many levels. Thanks for whipping this up.

(meta: yes, just a simple comment to say its great. Lets not forget to post these as well once in a while)

[sugerman]

And don't forget to pat yourself on the back when you do!

[madsushi]

I was happy to see that tabbing worked intuitively and the clues auto-updated based on the cursor. Very slick!

[zed0]

Thank you.

[aviraldg]

http://www.xkcd.com/1286/

[trout]

It looks like the explain xkcd community finally cracked the codes: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1286:_Encryp...

Check out the discussion - it took a while to find a solution to the last 3.

[joshguthrie]

Surprised to find "Marseille" in the 701-800 :D

According to LastPass, "The following 114 hint(s) were used by 470 other people that share your password.". I wonder where I'm gonna find mine :D

Though this has a therapeutic effect: I'm not the only sucker to use a brand as my to-go password.

brb, changing my HN password

[idProQuo]

One of mine was "password1". All the hints were things like "usual", "standard" and "the one I use everywhere". Although not unexpected, this is scary: Not only are people using the same password everywhere, they're using THIS password everyone.

[thaumasiotes]

I find it fairly disturbing that so many hints are of the form, "the password is "<word>". That isn't better than not having one.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Since Adobe requires you to register before you can download one of their trials, I'd wager that a lot of them are completely throwaway, or just lifted from bugmenot or whatever.

[michaelt]

If you already have the answers right, the 'check' button appears not to work, but actually it highlights only those cells which are wrong, so if you've got it right it won't highlight anything.

Ben: Maybe when you get everything right it could give you a big green tick or something?

[zed0]

I've changed it slightly so that when you click check it highlights correct squares in green. I might add a tick later, though that probably won't be until Monday.

[e12e]

Doesn't seem to be working for me - neither in Iceweasel (Firefox) 25 or chromium (30) :-/

[zed0]

Strange, it works fine for me in Chromium 30.0.1599.66 (225456) on Arch. In what way is it not working?

[Zariel]

This is great, yet sobering that people still use awful passwords.

[ilyanep]

Even better is that some people just use the password as the password hint.

[davidcelis]

Kinda weird that the crossword is case sensitive and only works with lowercase letters. Funny idea, though.

[KMBredt]

There are passwords with uppercase letters and the puzzle distincts between those. e.g.: password is wrong but Password is correct.

[x0n]

Hmm, rendering is broken. Missing grid lines, misaligned; unusable. I presume this is CDN issues?

[zed0]

This sounds like it could well have been a CDN issue, I'm pretty sure that everything is now cached by CloudFlare if you want to try again.

[mdisraeli]

Talking to them now about CDNs and other means to handle the increased load - Sorry everyone!

[zed0]

I've set up CloudFlare now, hopefully when the DNS settings propagate it should solve most of the issues my (pretty puny) webserver has been having.

[matthewmacleod]

Lovely UX, and I'm so glad someone did that. Kudos!