Revealed: the worst passwords of 2011 - Polidicks

faure2001

[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;33372473]I once made my password part of the national anthem. Without spaces. And you don't know where I began and where I ended it! But, my current password is TOTALLY NOT my last name and year of birth.[/QUOTE] Now I want to make one of my passwords the entire book of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road]On the Road[/url]. Passwords don't have paragraphs. The book originally didn't have paragraphs. It's perfect!

[QUOTE=Kartoffel;33371656]I know someone who just slides their finger from "A" to the quotations, and hits enter right after keys.[/QUOTE] sounds like a good idea for temporarily passwords/passwords for sites you'll never go to afterwards actually.

My password is confusing

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59VDwxtEMEE[/media] Relevant.

My password takes 3 minutes to type

I remember a study like this revealed that "boobs" was also a commonly used password.

[QUOTE=Best4bond;33369336] 10. dragon [/QUOTE] rrerr

[QUOTE=Hmn30;33371915]I still don't understand how this can be true[/QUOTE] the 4 words have many more characters than the gibberish. Thing is, when you create a password, you're creating it agaisnt a person and not a computer. At least, I worry more about people and not software.

I've just been using sentences as my passwords. For example, my last steam password was "It's so easy when you're evil"

BigOwl

We were at the phone store and my Dad told the guy his password for something, fucking Potatoshoe. Best password ever

I have used my current password on millions of websites, and no one has hacked me yet

The password for just about everything in my school district is number 10

[QUOTE=Shibbey;33370846]bionicman[/QUOTE] zeitgeist

My passwords look like someone's cat with Parkinson's tried to write the great American novel: \P'Jm|bbr~>3@Mqjn^<Vb<WY[@fW@mZMh;/Yh@S$#Z>"TvP5/4>HhVGfyRx.GtV

I made a password generator to generate [i]ergonomic passwords[/i] for myself: [code]Seed: 1298441196 s0a.vNAPDktn HVMCnc,3iQHG c.38zKE8zHXY tbf8gBAYsjRN ktoCKQPcp4mg em19AMTyrj!N KSh1nTKFMVpt gncbQNZBwht.[/code] Using my patented [i]ergonomics technology[/i], these turn out to be quite comfortable to type despite being randomized gibberish.

lol people still use 123456 as passwords?

[QUOTE=elitehakor v2;33369348]My passwords look like this [code]h'LNxbU7kV@*y,.Wh,JoILemWxqgU'_Ai_kR'9h'{)l)=$^{"[QKrc>k^'vU@+!r+wq_!LmiB\VpDp9'[/code] and i keep them in [B]KeePass[/B][/QUOTE] Pfft, sissy.

[QUOTE=Mr.T;33370786]Hahaha, if you type your FP password in a post it will be censored. ******* Try it![/QUOTE] qazwsx

in order to figure out my password, you have to familiarize yourself with the phrase "Iron and Copper" [sp] i hope someone gets my deus ex reference [/sp]

[QUOTE=Best4bond;33369336] 18. passw0rd [/QUOTE] yo dog i heard password is the most used password. i got them now.

[QUOTE=Swilly;33372142]And Wrong.[/QUOTE] Yah wouldn't a password like that be very vulnerable to a dictionary attack?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jx8Eay5fWQ[/media] One of my favorite film

[QUOTE=Swilly;33372142]And Wrong.[/QUOTE] why

Thing is, for the average joe, who's going to hack them? I mean, you are made to have a complex password for your online banking and paypal, so would it really matter if anything else for hacked? things like google require you to have a specific password, as do other email providers.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;33369604][img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png[/img] Relevant[/QUOTE] Wouldn't the latter one be extremely susceptible to a dictionary attack I mean if they were just doing a brute force attack it would take forever, but running through a bunch of common words is going to get you a higher yield of correct passwords

[QUOTE=Robber;33369493]I didn't expect [i]trustno1[/i]. Sounds like a reasonable password.[/QUOTE] I instantly though of the overprotective smuggler from Deus Ex.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;33376408]Wouldn't the latter one be extremely susceptible to a dictionary attack I mean if they were just doing a brute force attack it would take forever, but running through a bunch of common words is going to get you a higher yield of correct passwords[/QUOTE] Not if you use punctuation. Can a dictionary attack predict a comma between two words with no real reason to be there? Thought so.

I think the strength of your password is less important than the fact that you tend to use the same one everywhere. [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] For example, my friend learned that having his school photocopy password and his facebook password (meatpie) the same thing, was a very bad idea.