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- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44I had no idea 'Service Unavailable' was the most common password.
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37(Note, study was done in the UK... which is apparent on this list)
10. thomas (0.99%)
9. arsenal (1.11%)
8. monkey (1.33%)
7. charlie (1.39%)
6. qwerty (1.41%)
5. 123456 (1.63%)
4. letmein (1.76%)
3. liverpool (1.82%)
2. password (3.780%)
1. 123 (3.784%) - raitchison, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28remind me to change the combination on my luggage.
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Actually those numbers arent percentages (%) they are 'permilles' (‰) or per thousand. Crazy brits.
- aptget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I'm surprised 'asdf' didn't make the list.
- MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Most common passwords are as follows.
1. password
2. sex
3. god
4. computer manufacturer name (dell, toshiba, sony)
5. coke, or pepsi
6. qwerty, asdf
7. birthdates/anniversary
8. pet's name
9. 1234567 (it has to be 7 characters at most companies.)
10. look around for the nearest post-it, thats probably the password. - Chmarr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19You have "arsenal" as a password on your luggage?
- theotheragentm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I thought these were the most common passwords. Maybe I'm confusing something else.
10.Chump
9. Chumpette
8. Yours
7. Up
6. Pimpmobile
5. Bite
4. My
3. Shiny
2. Daffodil
1. Ass - MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Name of a fütbol team.
(US translation, soccer team) - Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.duggmirror.com/security/Top_10_Most_Common_Passwords_2/
- Buttercup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9yeah, now you have to add a 1 after your username... damn password schemes!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9My digg password is the th... oh *****.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Lets not, because that one didn't make it, and this did.
- bobslaede, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71-2-3-4-5 spaceballs ;)
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Cache: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk.nyud.net:8080/top-10-most-common-passwords.asp
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7of course it's down.. this was on frontpage yesterday
double dugg
probably slashdotted tomorrow - nitsuj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Maybe your password should be 'sherlock'
- veloscaper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@r6rider, then is Thomas a dealer name?
- dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm not surprised. The master network password at my last employer was three digits. Everyone knew what it was. The plant manager didn't seem to mind everyone reading her email. People seem to be annoyed by passwords for some reason.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"That's it, I'm taking the next pimpmobile outta here. But before I do, I've got one more thing to say.."
- r6rider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Monkey is not random. "monkey" and "charlie" both mean cocaine in the UK.
- salmacis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes, because only the USA matters, right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ALthough i can see it being somewhat big brotherish.. i see people embrassing biometrics because passes mostly suck..
for making a great pass that you can remember make a rules algorythm
Like
1 take site name or network name.. digg
2 take birthdate 04/20/1969
3 mix them starting with letter of network d04i20g19g69
4. If letter has even number after it capitalise the letter D04I20g19g69
5. keep adding rules to make it as complex as you want.. remember the rules and always have different but complex passes.. IF they make you change it every thirty days.. use the month in the rules. - Zonghui, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Kinda obvious the study was done in the UK.
As you would almost never see someone in Texas or something using 'liverpool' as a password. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wtf... given the other members of that list, I figured "manchu" would be in there.. or maybe chelsea.
Just shows how these lists are useless without some context... here in Boston I'd put money down that the most common password is redsox, redsox04 or redsox2004 - databasecowboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It is if you're running an ASP server!
=-) - skoles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't remember the one from Hackers, but I wonder how many used TRUSTNO1 for a while...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3also a football (soccer) team. and a city in the u.k.
- WeThePeople, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is so true, most people I know have the most common passwords, like their childrens name, pet name, birth date or phone number, and seem very careless about it. They also tend to use the exact same password for all their accounts.
When I work on someones computer I might have to help them set up accounts for ebay or other sites, I always tell them how important it is to not use common words or names especially names or numbers connected to them. I also make it a point to leave the room and tell them to type in the password they choose, but surprisingly most people are not all that concerned, I can't stand that, I don't want to know their password, and they shouldn't want anyone to know it. I also tell them what to look out for, like emails or fake sites and even phone calls, and recommend that they change it every once in while.
I have also seen way to many systems with post it notes right next to or on the computer with clearly written user names and passwords for accounts. (even in office or work places, sometimes visible to the public!) I go crazy, If it's a home computer I ask them, do your kids use this computer? if they do, do you know what friends they have with them? It may be fine at home, but the habit of being so careless about security is one reason why we have some of these problems.
It Just amazes me in todays age, it's not just the lack of strong passwords, but the lack of care in keeping them private. I'm convinced even top level people in a large corporations and financial institutions are just as careless, which makes all our data very insecure and open. Passwords to digital documents are mostly a failure compared to physical documents under lock and key. - rprouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Every once in awhile I run a cracker against the passwords of users on my machines to determine if anyone is compromising security by having really weak passwords. The most common one for women besides the obvious ones in that list was 2hot4u. Made me laugh, I doubt they were ;)
- shadedream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You mean love, sex, secret and God? ;)
- sl4x0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4lol i love how monkey is thrown into there randomly. back in the day, i found that a huge percentage of people used their username as their password. a lot of password schemes don't allow you to do that anymore though.
- SuperGhost, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This is considering that the people actually have passwords right? What about blank?
- Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3British football club.
- Jomwilli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm, too many of you believe and remember the movie "Hackers" a little too much. That was made in 1995. Oh and it was a movie. Kinda good, it had Angelina in it I mean!
After 7 years on the Help Desk world I would have to say password, or password123, or #1Password, is the most common I see. - Filoviridae, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Then your IT password policy is weak.
- Porsche944, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be best if you added special chars in there as well such as ! ^ $. You can have the password be shorter if you use special chars, #'s lower case and upper case and have it be as hard to crack as a long password. The best passwords are something like this CatsAreLazy1+1=2
- nicerobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/18/staples-wordlock-combo-lock-uses-letters-not-numbers/
- imnotquitesure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3letmein is a new one on me. What about opensaysme?
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Chmarr
arsenal may not be in the top 10 for americans, most would have no idea what they are referring to (aside from an arsenal of weapons). Maybe one or two NFL teams would probably find themselves in the top 10 though.
Go Gunners! ;P - Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@WeThePeople
When I ran a network for a Hospital I enforced the password complexity requirements in Windows 2000 and there was no end to the bitching I heard from the staff about not being able to use their kids' names, their dogs' names etc. etc. "What? you mean I have to use a number? AND a capital letter? You've got to be kidding me how am I going to remember this?"
*sigh* It's a battle that can't be won. - TheBaker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Just to make it clear, that those aren't percent, they're per thousand.
Edit: Beaten to it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1true i just kept my rules simple for people to understand.. my rules are more complex and do use non alpha numeric passes.. the point isnt the complexity of the alogorythm..the point is being able to make differnt unique passwords that you can easily remember using your algorythm and you have to admit they are stronger passes than the list.
by all means add rule numerber six.. interpose -*/^%uFFFD ...D 04I-20gx19/g69^©
I believe i can make it complex enough to satify even the most demanding hacker. making it smaller is easy too...19/g69^© - Pink0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Monkey means Cocaine? It's cockney slang for £500 so that could get confusing. Prefer to think that people are sitting at their computers thinking about monkeys all day.
Oh ... and thomas is another name for a penis. - BoswellsJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm just glad he didn't put my password on the list: Bosco. There I said it. I'm so proud of it. I've been dying to tell someone!
- jacobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dugg Mirror - working
http://www.duggmirror.com/security/Top_10_Most_Common_Passwords_2/ - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1just write all your passwords in pocketmod.
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Service Unavailable"
how'd it guess? - stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah...guest. also, i would have thought Admin would be in there somewhere.
- LukeD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it got dugg early this moning in another post that got front-paged, probably died some time after that....
(btw, that also means it got duplicated here - http://digg.com/security/Top_10_Most_Common_Passwords ) -
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