The most common passwords: how lazy are you?

[fenster]

Recently a site called RockYou was hacked and the 20 most commonly used passwords were published. Needless to say...the results are kind of depressing.

http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1871,s=25442&iid=251048,00.asp

I thought people were more or less over the habit of creating braindead passwords but I guess not. I doubt anyone here would fess up to using dummy passwords but I'd like to think it's mostly people who aren't computer/internet-savvy that decide "123456" is a solid choice. Honestly, it's not even that fast to type - I can type my password faster than that, and it has three different types of characters!

Just a friendly reminder that a lot of people still aren't very good at this whole internet thing.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358273,00.asp

[rerato]

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"

Mel Brooks new it before the WWW was even invented.

[Terremer]

Some (most?) people just fail with computers...My professor today was trying to visit a page in class and spent 5 minutes looking for the home button...

I try to make my password completely random, like,a jumble of letters and numbers and such that don't even make sense..worked so far.

[Sabotage]

what the hell? other people use princess too?

[Raethen]

what the hell? other people use princess too?

My thoughts exactly.

[fenster]

what the hell? other people use princess too?

And here I had you pegged as a "iloveyou" kind of guy.

[JoeDusk]

My theory on passwords are, it doesnt matter what it is, mine are very simple because once a hacker, keylogger can get it, it doesn't matter how complex it's built

[Trosck]

To an extent that's correct, but a lot of worms will use standard crackign methods of "try a bunch of passwords". If your's can easily be created by combing different numbers and words from the alphabet, it's much easier to crack. Keyloggers are a big thing, but that's kinda like not locking your door because somebody can just break the window (or sneak inside when you're home).

[XiD]

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"

+1 awesome for quoting spaceballs