The 20 most popular passwords

[Mel Wilson]

Tyler Aviss wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Renata Rocha <natzilla-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.

True, but lots of end-users will be very unaware of what Unicode 
encoding they're using.  Changing code page is the new CapsLock key.

	Mel.

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