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25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by realusername »

iamthepieman wrote: post #7

I often either reuse a simple password or use a stupidly simple one for sites that require a signup but for which I do not care to interact with in any meaningful way. Have to create an account on some new startups app? username: newstartupname_myname password: 12345! need to sign up for a "trial" account to get access to content I probably don't even want? same thing. so while I'm sure that there are way too many pe…

Same on my case, if the account is essentially useless I do exactly this. I put the same username and password with a dedicated email for this kind of things.

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by jstalin »

rogeryu wrote: post #3

Direct link to the relevant article on Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most-popular-passwords-of-2015-wer... The linked article does nothing more than link to that article and include a link to a "convenient" text file with the top 25: 123456, password, 12345678, qwerty, 12345, 123456789, football, 1234, 1234567, baseball, welcome, 1234567890, abc123, 111111, 1qaz2wsx, dragon, master, monkey, letmein, login, princ…

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Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by x1798DE »

salmonet wrote: post #4

>Every year, SplashData complies a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the last twelve months, then sorts them in order of popularity. The title should be most commonly stolen passwords of 2015. It isn't very surprising to me that easy-to-guess passwords are the most stolen.

If they are hard to guess, there's very little chance of collisions, so you'd expect the list of most common passwords and most guessable passwords to be the same anyway.

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by noobie »

realusername wrote: post #11
iamthepieman wrote: post #7

I often either reuse a simple password or use a stupidly simple one for sites that require a signup but for which I do not care to interact with in any meaningful way. Have to create an account on some new startups app? username: newstartupname_myname password: 12345! need to sign up for a "trial" account to get access to content I probably don't even want? same thing. so while I'm sure that there are way too many pe…

Same on my case, if the account is essentially useless I do exactly this. I put the same username and password with a dedicated email for this kind of things.

Reddit-esque but Relevant username!

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by wfo »

All of our hard work convincing people to think of longer passwords has finally convinced the populace to type 'qwertyuiop' instead of 'qwerty' when they're asked to make an account for a service they don't care about.

The best way to improve password quality at least looking at it from the perspective of a user with my habits is to wait to have me make an account until I actually want the service. If I have to think of a password in order to try something out for the first time it's going to be the most inane garbage because I simply don't care/can't be bothered to think of some secure phrase to protect nothing.

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by nashashmi »

ins0 wrote: post #9

Reminds me every year that i should change my password to "INVALID" and everytime i try to login with the wrong password, i get a nice reminder. "Wrong Password - Your password is invalid" slow clap

That's a great idea: Take the error message and make that the entire password.

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by nashashmi »

nashashmi wrote: post #17

The next set of seemingly random passwords will be anything sequential on qwerty keyboard. Like: 1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6hn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;/ Or variants in reverse.

And google has a new list: (see end of page)

https://www.google.com/search?q=1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm...

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by daveguy »

I get how all of these are common easily remembered passwords that people would use, except for this one:

1qaz2wsx

Where did that come from as a "most common" password? Hah! Nevermind. I just looked at it on the keyboard. Posting anyway for fun.

I used to think "come up with a pattern on the keyboard" was a good plan, but apparently it is fairly common. Glad I use a password manager now (passpack).

Re: 25 Most Common Passwords of 2015

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Post by svckr »

One that did catch my eye was 1qaz2wsx

Take a look at your keyboard to see that one. While it has potential, it could be a little longer. It is still the strongest one from the list though.

How so? It could be a 100-character string of seemingly random symbols; if it's at the top of the list, it's not a strong password.

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