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I'm not sure this even matters. Gawker accounts are for commenting on inane media stories. If people used the same password for their email, that's one thing,
by Qz 16y ago
I'm not sure this even matters. Gawker accounts are for commenting on inane media stories. If people used the same password for their email, that's one thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if most had a harder password for their email, and resorted to 123456 etc. for less important accounts.
- AgentConundrum 16y agoI wouldn't be surprised if most had a harder password for their email If we were talking about Hacker News, or other programmer-oriented website, then I'd be inclined to agree. Unfortunately, Gawker is all about lowest-common-denominator fluff, and so attracts a lot of (for lack of better term, and please don't mistake this for hubris) "normal people." Normal people don't give nearly as much consideration to these matters as we do, and I'd expect a good majority of these people use the same password (or two) for damn near everything. It's not uncommon for even technical people to reuse the same low-level passwords across multiple sites[1], but where we understand the importance of our email accounts as being a master key, regular folk aren't always so knowledgeable. [1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/05/i-just-logged-in-as-you-how-it-happened.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/05/i-just-logged-in-as...
- radicaldreamer 16y agoAccording to this study (http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/355776/study_reveals_password_re-use_rampant/ http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/355776/study_reveals_p...), the common user reuses passwords everywhere. The 3000 who used 123456 might be outliers. The real danger of this leak is in those who didn't think of Gawker as being a less important account and therefore undeserving of their primary password.