Favorite Passwords: "1234" and "Password"

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A statistical analysis of 28,000 stolen passwords showed that many people are inept when it comes to choosing a password. If your password is something as lame as 1234 (or anything else that easy), you’ll get no sympathy from anyone when you get hacked.

It found that 16 percent took a first name as a password, often their own or one of their children, according to the study published by Information Week. Another 14 percent relied on the easiest keyboard combinations to remember such as "1234" or "12345678." For those using English keyboards, "QWERTY", was popular.
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That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
 
Damn! Beat me by 1 min.

O well im gonna grab my password sheet in that place I put that thing that time.
 
omg I'm hax0ring teh Gibson!?!?!1!!

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You elite?

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zomg teh rainbow books!?!
 
I've never understood why people use especially weak passwords. I use one password for absolutely everything that doesn't demand absolute security and it's a simple 15 character alphabetical amalgamation that's actually a reference to a book I've never owned and never read but am familiar with for other reasons. It wouldn't fall to a dictionary attack -- only brute force, and no knowledge of my personal life would help anybody in guessing it. It took me literally one minute to come up with it, so why can't weak passworders just take the same approach?
 
This is just like how most people probably only use locks on their doors.
 
my dad uses 4321 to secure his business alarm. it boggles my mind.
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I'm going to bet once tripped you have some arbitrary length of time to put it in, like 30 seconds? If thats the case, assuming you know the sequence to enter the keys, you've got 3-4 good tries before you're hosed. Even though it's simple, it's going to take a stroke of luck to get it. The alarm code at my old job was 55555. Who would have gotten that in 3-4 trys?
 
Reminds me of an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon walks into a Best Buy-type store and ends up accessing the computer terminals to see if a product is in stock. The password? 1234.
 
I remember back in middle school, our internet traffic was protected by "Bess" so we couldn't get anywhere fun. What was the password? The name of our school. The System Administrator called me a menace, I called her just plain stupid.
 
My generic password for stupid websites/forums I'm forced to register with to do something arbitrary is asdf1234.

My normal pw is much more complex though -_-
 
TheGamerZ said:
I remember back in middle school, our internet traffic was protected by "Bess" so we couldn't get anywhere fun. What was the password? The name of our school. The System Administrator called me a menace, I called her just plain stupid.
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One of our schools Mac "security" systems back in the original imac days had a security file with EVERYONES password in plainview within the system, so long as you used Netscape Navigator to just browse through it, you could open it.

Good times.
 
12 character completely random password, comprising numbers and letters with mixed case. I have no sympathy for people who choose weak passwords.
 
The 1234 password is often what a stupid ISP will reset their user's passwords to when a change is requestion. This is definatly the case for AOL and Tiscali in the UK. (And I am sure a few others have also done this, but they slip my mind)

Oh the fun of "support via script"....

I like to add the £ sign to passwords. The chinese hackers I see smashing at the doors of my servers always seem to use US keyboards.

("£" should be a UK Sterling Pound sign.... in case any character set fails to draw it and my post looks daft)
 
At my high school, to bypass the security filter on IE, the user name was 'teacher' and the password was 'rehcaet', teacher spelled backwards.
 
The moron admin at my college created a secondary admin account for himself to use...

User: owen
Pass: list
 
I assign "password" as the default password for all new student accounts in my labs. I tried to pick the least confusing password I could think of, but its still a bit too advanced for them. "I put in my usual password but I still can't log in!"

 
djBon2112 said:
12 character completely random password, comprising numbers and letters with mixed case. I have no sympathy for people who choose weak passwords.
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+1

People have no concept of security, it drives me insane at work.

They think I'm some sort of PC god of some sort for never getting caught with my pants down when 99% of the time its plain common sense precautions.
 
djBon2112 said:
12 character completely random password, comprising numbers and letters with mixed case. I have no sympathy for people who choose weak passwords.
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Not quite as complex, I am only 8, but same Alpha Numerical with caps and symbols mixed in.
 
With my new students I have no choice the password must be complex of sixteen characters with special characters. Also when I have run my password checker you would be surpised how many different ways you can work in the work F**K.

KM
 
I always use OU812 or the ever favorite 8675309.:D My wireless is using antidisestablishmentarianism.
 
djBon2112 said:
12 character completely random password, comprising numbers and letters with mixed case. I have no sympathy for people who choose weak passwords.
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1) Do you have software create that for you?

2) How the fuck do you remember it?
 
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