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Forgot your password? Try "123456".
- aw3c2 17y agoI wonder how many of those 123456 might be throw-away accounts of people who just wanted to take a look. Probably not many but I think that aspect is often overlooked.
- ambiate 17y agoMy uni started forcing discrete passwords on mail services and they also added a variating password for the wifi. This was an attempt to get students in the habit of creating not-so-obvious passwords in their careers. I think it has been quite effective too. Students realize how easy it is to remember something like ut5r#94!, ask anyone on the campus... they know this by heart.
- PStamatiou 17y agoAgreed! My first password provided to me by OIT at Georgia Tech was just like that - long with lots of entropy and not pronounceable. And sure enough a few weeks of using it daily to logon to the campus wifi I knew it by heart. And every 90 days (or maybe it was 180.. been a while) when Georgia Tech would make us change our password, I picked something just as complex. And know thats how all my passwords are. Unfortunately I now use 1Password to manage a lot of that and I no longer know all of my passwords by heart. :/
- chaosmachine 17y agoThis is yet another rehash of Imperva's press release. http://www.imperva.com/news/press/2010/01_21_Imperva_Releases_Detailed_Analysis_of_32_Million_Passwords.html http://www.imperva.com/news/press/2010/01_21_Imperva_Release... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067323 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067323
- techiferous 17y agoWhoops! Sorry for posting a duplicate story.
- geocar 17y agoThat's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.