China Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 According to PC Magazine. The Most Commonly Used Online Passwords 10) (Your first name) 9) blink182 8) password1 7) myspace1 6) monkey 5) letmein 4) abc123 3) qwerty 2) 123456 1) password Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsOrlando Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 And here I thought "TLCismy****" would make the list. I must be the only one using that password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidenreich Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Blink182? Really? Is this list from 1998? #4 is my password at work. 12345 is my phone password. That's kind of close..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dictator Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 it's a good thing Seantaylor36 isn't on the list :paranoid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "That's like some moron's combination for his luggage!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudechain Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 very interesting. For the longest time GOD and Jesus were up there. Since it's what I do( Information Security) our passwords at my place of employment must have an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special charecter (@#$%&*). It must also be at least 8 charecters long and the system remembers the last 4 passwords you used and forces you to use a different one. Oh, and we force changes every 60 days. I remember an audit we ran at work and it was suprising how easily it was to find passwords. Look at the sticky note on the monitor, look under the keyboard. Kids names, birthdays, anniversaries and pets names are pretty common too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidenreich Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "That's like some moron's combination for his luggage!" The exact reason why I use it. And I laugh every time I punch it into my phone..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "password" is number 1? Jesus Christ we are a nation of morons. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 2) 123456 That's the same combination I have on my luggage!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 namblasarge has been a solid one for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dictator Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 namblasarge has been a solid one for awhile. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "That's like some moron's combination for his luggage!" That's the same combination I have on my luggage!!!!! Already posted joke owned. :owned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Already posted joke owned. :owned: "didn't see Spaceballs :owned:" Re-watch the movie, then come back and tell us where you missed .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 edit: seems like i'm very late on this one, don't :owned: me! damn space balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "didn't see Spaceballs :owned:"Re-watch the movie, then come back and tell us where you missed .... I've seen the movie, and both of you tried to make the same joke, and both failed. But Larry failed first, meaning you were repost-owned. The quote is: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! edit: seems like i'm very late on this one, don't :owned: me! damn space balls. :laugh: your edit just beat my mocking post! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGreenistheBest Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Already posted joke owned. :owned: Yeah, the joke is a 1-2 punch, so he was just completing the cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Yeah, the joke is a 1-2 punch, so he was just completing the cycle. Uh-huh - that's why he quoted China and NOT Larry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 According to PC Magazine.The Most Commonly Used Online Passwords 10) (Your first name) 9) blink182 8) password1 7) myspace1 6) monkey 5) letmein 4) abc123 3) qwerty 2) 123456 1) password I can't believe blink182 makes the list except that it's a letter/number combo which many sites require. 182 was my luggage combo back in the day because of them tho!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 ****...now i gotta change all my passwords. :soapbox: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 "password" is number 1? Jesus Christ we are a nation of morons. :laugh: "Password" and "password1" are used by companies as initial passwords when setting up an account for new employees....then the user has to change it. Probably way these are on the list. :whoknows: I hope that's the reason or as you said we are a bunch of morons. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Since it's what I do( Information Security) our passwords at my place of employment must have an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special charecter (@#$%&*). It must also be at least 8 charecters long and the system remembers the last 4 passwords you used and forces you to use a different one. Oh, and we force changes every 60 days.I remember an audit we ran at work and it was suprising how easily it was to find passwords. Look at the sticky note on the monitor, look under the keyboard. Kids names, birthdays, anniversaries and pets names are pretty common too. And the reason it's so easy to find passwords is because your password-nazi rules guarantee that the only way any human can remember his password, is to write it on a PostIt and stick it on his monitor. I regularly access over 20 web sites. (40 if you count the porn sites. ) And a great many of them have rules like you use. Password maximum 8 characters. Others have minimum 8. Some require punctuation symbols. Some forbid them. All of them mandate password changes at capricious intervals. Many of them will not allow me to change passwords unless I wait for the day when they go from not allowing it to demanding it. My company keeps a WordPad file on the company's server, that maintains a list of all the passwords the company uses. I'm the guy that has to maintain the list. Whenever somebody in the company is compelled to change his password, then he has to tell me, so I can change the password on the list to reflect that Steve's password at xyz.com has been changed from "Steve011" to "Steve012". After I update the password list, I print out three copies and hand them out to everybody. IMO, rules like that exist because it's ridiculously easy for the guy in power to impose them, and because well, if I make the rules easy then somebody might blame me, but if I make the rules impossible for anybody to follow, and the employees break the rules, then I can blame them. :rant: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 HP servers used to have an initial default password of 'iforgot'. My inner geek always thought that was funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideshow24 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 And the reason it's so easy to find passwords is because your password-nazi rules guarantee that the only way any human can remember his password, is to write it on a PostIt and stick it on his monitor. I regularly access over 20 web sites. (40 if you count the porn sites. ) And a great many of them have rules like you use. Password maximum 8 characters. Others have minimum 8. Some require punctuation symbols. Some forbid them. All of them mandate password changes at capricious intervals. Many of them will not allow me to change passwords unless I wait for the day when they go from not allowing it to demanding it. My company keeps a WordPad file on the company's server, that maintains a list of all the passwords the company uses. I'm the guy that has to maintain the list. Whenever somebody in the company is compelled to change his password, then he has to tell me, so I can change the password on the list to reflect that Steve's password at xyz.com has been changed from "Steve011" to "Steve012". After I update the password list, I print out three copies and hand them out to everybody. IMO, rules like that exist because it's ridiculously easy for the guy in power to impose them, and because well, if I make the rules easy then somebody might blame me, but if I make the rules impossible for anybody to follow, and the employees break the rules, then I can blame them. :rant: When sites require regular password changes that include a number my go to used to be f(insert company name)1 a month later change to f(company name)2. . . . Shoot! Be right back! Gotta change my ES password! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakkhim Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I read an article sometime last year that pass phrases are better and more secure than the uppercase & lowercase letters, special characters and numerals. It said that it was much harder for password breaking software to decode a password like, "i love the redskins," than, "P@ssw0rd!23." It has something to do with the spaces between words and it's also longer and harder to decode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Since it's what I do( Information Security) our passwords at my place of employment must have an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special charecter (@#$%&*). It must also be at least 8 charecters long and the system remembers the last 4 passwords you used and forces you to use a different one. Oh, and we force changes every 60 days. this is exactly how my company operates, and technically we are supposed to have a unique password for every application we use. yea, not so much happening because that would be 5 different passwords for work alone, and I'm sure there are people here who use more apps than I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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