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According to the article, Football95 is the top password. Anyone happen to know why the reference to 95? I can't quite remember anything particularly special a
by smaili 10y ago
According to the article, Football95 is the top password.
Anyone happen to know why the reference to 95? I can't quite remember anything particularly special about that year to make it a common password for people.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIME, its not uncommon for people to include the two-digit form of their birth year in usernames or passwords.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- bigtimeidiot 10y agoI thought the same thing. In fact, many of the top 10 passwords look odd to me: dthomas? disneyI (capital "I")? conrad76? I have a hard time believing these are legitimately the most common passwords. Compare that to a list like this: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-most-commonly-hacked-passwords-in-2016-were-painfully-obvious/ http://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-most-commonly-hacke....
- draw_down 10y agoYes, the top passwords being so specific is a key point in TFA.
- r00fus 10y agoFrom that link - can someone explain this one to me? 20. 3rjs1la7qe Seems like a word but not sure which language. Only interesting password in the list.
- CamelCaseName 10y agoPerhaps Arabic? My Arabic is very poor, so I cannot make out what it's saying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
- niftich 10y agoIt's likely that these are mass-reused passwords from bots. See: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/so-just-why-is-18atcskd2w-such-a-popular-password/ https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/so-just-...
- hackjosh 10y agoIt's not a word, it's a keyboard walk. Fairly clever one too.
- devoply 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Soccer_95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Soccer_95