Rapper shows why you shouldn’t post your password in a music video

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A strong password means nothing if you're shouting it out. Photo: College Humor
A strong password means nothing if you're shouting it out. Photo: College Humor

We’re all concerned about our privacy lately. Using a different strong password for all our banking and website activities is the best way to keep malicious hackers from getting all up into our grill.

Rapper MC Safesearch, though, needs to remember not to post his passwords in the music video he’s doing about privacy and security.

Check out how this socially-conscious musician gets totally hacked during his own music video.

The MC in this video seems to forget that rapping about his password strategies isn’t going to keep him safe, like using one based on the first name of his pet, Mr. Noodles — even if he was “tricky” and replaced vowels with numbers. Oops.

The video gets more and more hilarious as the rapper gets hacked during the song itself, frantically tries to fix things, and ends up finding out who’s really been up in his passwords the whole time.

“Dang, I’ve known you since the fourth grade, Bobby,” says MC Safesearch. “I even shared my pizza bagels with you.”

It’s a fun watch, so give it a look when you get a sec. Just don’t film your screen while you enter your YouTube password, ok?

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