Everyone and his brother, inside of infosec and outside has been chortling at Kanye’s iPhone password.   Its 00000.

Not everyone is in on the joke.
Some express OUTRAGE.  “how dare you share that man’s password” (it was on CNN, its out there now).
Some (and these remind me of the 4D Chess MAGA people) theorize that Kanye is thinking 12 steps ahead.  He knew his password input would be on camera while at the White House so he temporarily set it to 00000.
And the last were the virtue signalers I mentioned.  “how dare you password shame Kanye, at least he has a password.”

And it is true.  By HAVING a password, encryption is enabled on the iPhone.
it is also true that few of us would be able to exploit knowledge of Kanye’s password as we don’t have hands on his phone.

But lets be honest.  A password of 00000 is pretty hilarious.

Self disclosure – one of my older accounts has failed the LastPass password audit because the password was compromised previously, and its used in more than one place.   But given the difficulty in updating this particular password, and the low risk level, I let it be until a forced password change recently.   Sometimes you just use dumb passwords.  And if it filmed I’d be razzed for it too.

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