Almost every day, we are bombarded with lessons from security experts about the need to use strong passwords, which will make it difficult for attackers to break into your computer, tablet or phone in the event of a crisis. However, if you think that the general public is already fully following these instructions, and mostly those users who can be described as the most at-risk group in terms of similar attacks, you are wrong. For example, the former President of the European Council and apparently the future Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, "burned" his simple iPhone code in a live broadcast.
Donald Tusk, Poland's likely next Prime minister, revealed his phone PIN code during a live TV broadcast of the first sitting of the new parliament pic.twitter.com/AsLDRj1av8
— Daniel Tilles (@danieltilles1) November 13, 2023
As you can see in the live broadcast of the Polish Sejm, Tusk uses the trivial password 555555 to log in to his iPhone. It is therefore clear as day that it would only take a few moments for attackers to get into his phone, as they would certainly try a similar type of password as one of the first possible ones. It is all the more surprising that such a highly politically exposed person has such a stupid password, regardless of whether it is used to access any of his phones. Whether Tusk will learn from his mistake and start using a password that is at least a little more complex is currently a guess, but given the mess Tusk made with his password, it seems likely that he will change it after all. MiniAt least in case he loses this phone now, all of Poland and a large part of Europe knows how to get into it.
I would never have thought of that, I wouldn't have thought of that, genius 😃