Posted on 11/23/2011 5:39:24 AM PST by rawhide
If you see your password below, STOP!
Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts.
Here are two lists, the first compiled by SplashData:
1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football
Last year, Imperva looked at 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, a hacked website, and released its own Top 10 "worst" list:
(snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
A Christian Arab friend of mine used yasimsim, which means “Open, Sesame”.
I use a very strong password of 10 random letters, numbers and special characters. I can never remember it, so I have it on a post-it note stuck to my monitor...
I’ll be back in a few minutes. I have to change a bunch of my passwords.
I just leave it blank that way nobody will guess it.
re:#22
I alternate my passwords between “Superman” and “Clark Kent,” depending upon whether or not I am wearing my glasses. It fools everyone.
Winner! The answer is so simple.
12345? That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Space Balls
Someone didn’t bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and... god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?
qazwsx ??
Bailey?!
Thankfully GETMEABEER did not make the list.
I wondered too, but if you look at a keyboard it's the first two vertical rows.
OK, I’ll switch to 1qaz2wsx.
So i shouldn’t use my mther’s maiden name, my social security number, and my birthday... In order?
Go figure.
I use Avagdro’s number, but change the exponent to 24. One in a thousand know what it is, and those who do get the last digit wrong.
No “BOSCO”?
LOL at “password” and “letmein”.
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