The 20 most popular passwords

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Gary Layng <glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>

| http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5325&tag=trunk;content

Nice.

I've very impressed that 123456 is almost four times as popular as
12345 (which is just slightly ahead of 123456789).

They don't tell you how many distinct passwords were used so the
absolute number of users of these common passwrds isn't as meaningful
as it might be.

The top 5000 passwrdw are used by 20% of the users.

I'm surprised that iloveyou(5), princess(6), and babygirl(13) are as
high as they are.  Perhaps something to do with the subject matter of
rockyou.com (whatever that is).

Most humans cannot remmeber a large collection of distict strong
passwords.  Expecting them to do so is just stupid.  Mocking them for
failing is rude: the fault is in the system designers.
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