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May 19, 2007
10 Most Common Passwords
"If you recognize yours, you may as well hand over your wallet or purse to the first person you see on the street."
- password
- 123456
- qwerty
- abc123
- letmein
- monkey
- myspace1
- password1
- link182
- (your first name)
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Not to bump an ancient post or anything... No, wait, absolutely to bump an ancient post;
"PC World" might have had it, I see "PC Magazine" also has it, both of them have it in the incorrect typoed form. This is actually a blatant ripoff (Yes, I'm accusing these PC magazine sites of plagarism) of an article I found at tech.yahoo.com and the password for number nine is "BLINK" 182, not "LINK". BLINK182 is actually a fairly popular band. No wonder so many people choose it. Especially when a short word and a few numbers are required in passwords nowadays.
Posted by: Steve | Apr 1, 2008 9:18:38 PM
link182? i find that hard to buy. i've worked with computers for 3 years now at mcdaniel college (formerly western maryland) and never once have i seen that out of thousands of passwords that are used here at the school each year. Monkey i would actualy think is higher. i would also add the always obvious "admin/ admin1"
Posted by: jon | May 20, 2007 11:36:29 PM
Phew, I'm safe, my password is "drowssap", no one's going to get that one!
Posted by: Argl | May 20, 2007 8:54:22 PM
