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#1 Dave

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Posted 26 January 2010 - 11:26 PM

Your internet password should not be 'qwerty.' Hopefully this isn't a surprise to you. This article lists the top 20 most common passwords. Number 7 is the best. rockyou

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#2 Deb

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 08:53 AM

Thankfully, none of my passwords made it into this list. So, in receiving my "we can't guess your password" award, I would like to thank my paranoia for ensuring that my passwords are filled with symbols, numbers, capital letters AND lower case letters - and at least 16 characters long.

What I want to know is: How do they KNOW those are the most used passwords?

Are they hacking into our shit?

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#3 monogodo

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 01:55 PM

*scrambles to change his password*

Just kidding.

No.

#4 Anticelebrity

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 06:33 PM

Or if they did a survey, who was dumb enough to reveal their password?

#5 Dave

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 06:36 PM

Anticelebrity, on 28 January 2010 - 06:33 PM, said:

Or if they did a survey, who was dumb enough to reveal their password?

As mentioned in the article, "The 32 million passwords it uses as its data set were published on the Internet last month after being stolen from Rockyou.com."

Had it been a survey, there are ways to ensure that no personally identifiable information is linked to the survey taker. That's a standard thing for non-marketing (i.e. non-BS) surveys.

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