There's a fair chance that some of the people reading this posting will have passwords that are:
because these are the top 10 worst passwords around, according to What’s My Pass? The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time. It's an interesting list and worth having a look at - just to make sure that you're not using any of them. What interests me most is that the vast majority of them are 'normal' words or numbers - but then of course these are the rather more stupid passwords. I did rather like ncc1701 (Starship Enterprise) and there were a fair number of variants on swear words which was rather depressing. Anyway, worth a quick peek.
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- 1234
- pussy
- 12345
- dragon
- qwerty
- 696969
- mustang
because these are the top 10 worst passwords around, according to What’s My Pass? The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time. It's an interesting list and worth having a look at - just to make sure that you're not using any of them. What interests me most is that the vast majority of them are 'normal' words or numbers - but then of course these are the rather more stupid passwords. I did rather like ncc1701 (Starship Enterprise) and there were a fair number of variants on swear words which was rather depressing. Anyway, worth a quick peek.
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