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I see your point, but 123456 is still a stupid password. A brain-dead password scheme like "1 <NameOfMyCat> <Domain>" (e.g., "1 Snuggles last.fm") is just as ea
by atdt 10y ago
I see your point, but 123456 is still a stupid password. A brain-dead password scheme like "1 <NameOfMyCat> <Domain>" (e.g., "1 Snuggles last.fm") is just as easy to remember, won't show up in rainbow tables, is nominally difficult to brute force, and you're more likely to be able to use it, as opposed to '123456', which many sites will balk at.
(To be clear: I am not endorsing this scheme. It is superior to '123456', but it is still bone-headed.)
- vidarh 10y agoThe point is that you should only use this kind of password in places where you really do not care about someone else getting access. It doesn't really matter what it is. It matters that it's something you're not for a moment tempted to think of as a "real" password and that you would never dream of using for any account where a data leak would affect you, but merely as a "they're stupidly asking me for a password for an account I don't care about, so lets just give them this" token. I'd lean towards agreeing with you that it's better to pick something else, but only to slightly reduce the inconvenience of someone messing with your account "just because".