The 20 most popular passwords

Tue Jan 26 16:27:22 UTC 2010

For something like my home network of 4 computers, 4 accounts in each, which are behind a router (Coyote Linux at the moment) with a solid password, do I need to worry about everyone's passwords on their accounts or just the router password? Let's assume here that I'm not worried about securing the individual accounts in the house from each other and the root password is solid. I make my own password very hard to figure out, can't say that I push the issue with everyone else in the house.

John.

> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:57:17 -0500
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: The 20 most popular passwords
> From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:33:54AM -0200, Renata Rocha wrote:
> > I used to have passwords generated from serial numbers from easy to
> > find objects around me, like my air conditioning unit, an old monitor.
> > Looking around my workplace helps remembering without having to
> > writing them down.
> > 
> > Serial numbers are nice, big, and have both numbers and letters. And
> > usually don't mean anything.
> > 
> > But lately due to security policies I have been using randomly
> > generated passwords by pwgen. It supposedly gives you pronounceable
> > passwords. I find them easier to memorize, so I use them.
> > 
> > I'm kinda psycho with passwords, I have more than 10 different.
> 
> Well counting all the websites around which need accounts, I am sure I
> have hundreds of passwords.  Because of the way I make my passwords I can
> actually figure out most of them without having to try twice.  The only
> problem is sites that insist on telling you rules for what your password
> must contain.  That's just stupid because their restrictions actually
> makes the password less secure than what I would have used otherwise.
> 
> If you say one character must be a digit, well that's one character
> that just reduced from around 90 choices to 10.  That's not more secure,
> that's less secure.  And if it means I have to write the password down
> somewhere because it doesn't necesarily fit my password generating system,
> then it is even less secure.
> 
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