Here are the top 10 most common passwords (though it's a bit UK-centric):
10. Thomas (person's name--always popular, so easy to crack)
9. arsenal (football--soccer--team, the UK-centric part)
8. monkey (almost my favorite)
7. charlie (oh, look, another person's name)
6. qwerty (and we all know where that one comes from)
5. 123456 (*totally* my favorite)
4. letmein (you know, 'let me in')
3. liverpool (another football team--apparently they're a very popular one)
2. password (yeah, this just screams--I forgot my password and the admins had to reset it for me)
1. 123 (which beats out '123456' but you know when all the '123' people are forced to go to 6 character minimum passwords they're going to use '123456')
If you are using any of these passwords or anyone's first name, or anything that resembles these passwords--wow--change now because these have all been Dugg.
Posted by dcoates at November 01, 2006 11:54 AMIf people would realize that it is rather easy to make difficult password to remember.
Find a person you know or is close to you and do the following.
William (real name)
Wil1iAm (relatively good password) ...certainly better than 123
Posted by: Shamick on November 3, 2006 01:07 PMWe've gone to using random passphrases for admin passwords when we set up new computers. They're surprisingly easy to remember once you've typed them a few times. Certainly easier than, say, a random string of symbols and letters (which are good passwords, but no one ever remembers them).
Posted by: Deb on November 3, 2006 01:11 PM