The 20 most popular passwords

[Tyler Aviss]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Renata Rocha <natzilla-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:57, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
> I tried to register a super safe password for my internet banking last
> week. After trying a bunch of effective random safe passwords and
> being denied, I tried a ridiculous one. It worked.
>
>
>
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Ditto. My bank doesn't allow spaces, and I believe it may have also
borked at symbols ($@). Alphanumeric only.

Glad to see that so many banks are concerned about security. I really
wouldn't be surprised to find them saved as plaintext in a DB
somewhere... hashes don't really care what goes in them for most
unicode stuff.
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