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That's flawed logic. Most of the analysis comes from the Adobe leakage, and arguably a large share of users there didn't care about this service and used an eas
by ozh 13y ago
That's flawed logic. Most of the analysis comes from the Adobe leakage, and arguably a large share of users there didn't care about this service and used an easy and weak password. It would be much more interesting to have stats from active gmail accounts or bank accounts, for instance.
- ygra 13y agoAnd even in the GMail case there could be lots of throwaways. Bank accounts usually not, but passwords to those don't leak very often.
- acqq 13y agoIf the users intend to use some site only once but the site forces the users to make passwords, this is unsurprisingly what the passwords will be. The users are actually quite smart in deciding how much effort is adequate for the realistically expected risk to them. Unless their perception is manipulated.
- rockdoe 13y agoThat would surely explain why "photoshop" and "adobe123" are so high. Article is garbage: sample is clearly biased.