PC Tech's top 10 passwords people use

[terry78]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/11844/most-common-passwords

If you have any of these, better change them it says.

[Dew k. Mosi]

blink182?

[black_dust]

blink182?

own up Dew we all know its your password!

*runs off to become a woman mod!*

[Dew k. Mosi]

*runs off to become a woman!*

fixed that for you, b_d

[black_dust]

fixed that for you, b_d

Dammit i was going to post a whitty reply saying "Thats me typing as Dew!!" but i dont want to say that about myself :(

[Apollo]

monkey haha

[Kyalesyin]

Hah... none of you will ever guess that my password is...

Wait, that would be dumb.

[CyberFaust]

123456.........*runs off to change 5 passwords* :(

[redmarvel]

blink182?

Well, let's face it. Many systems ask for at least one letter and one number and a password that's 8 characters in length... some people remember band names easily.

1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace 1
8. password 1
9. blink182
10. (your first name)

I can honestly say I've never used any of the above.

This reminds me of when the Hype wanted us to use our Mother's maiden name for a password. A number of us Hypesters pointed out what a major security gaff that would be, because if you have a persons real name (from their e-mail address) and their Mother's maiden name, you could possibly get access to their bank accounts.

DON'T USE YOUR MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET.

[SWAT]

Monkey? The hell...?

[redmarvel]

monkey haha

we had a guy whose password was whanker... and he kept mis-spelling it. :whatever:

[Kyalesyin]

You know... I'm not actually sure what my mother's maiden name is... grandma had re-married twice by the time I came along.

[ComicChick]

when i was in high school, the computers in the labs had the password password, so one day while we were in there for spanish class, taking practice tests, i changed the answers

[The Squirrel]

Not even close to any of mine.

[BatMatt]

when i was in high school, the computers in the labs had the password password, so one day while we were in there for spanish class, taking practice tests, i changed the answers

well played

[Ebil Gig]

Ha, I used to use the word Qwerty as my password for some online gaming accounts :D I never thought it would be common though...

[The Evolutionist]

I used to se my first name, when I was 14 and couldn't remember anything else.

[Darthphere]

your first name is a brilliant password.

[04nbod]

i'll give you guys a clue- none of them are my password;)

[Darthphere]

Funny enough monkeys was one of my first passwords back in like 1995.

[Dew k. Mosi]

DON'T USE YOUR MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET.

My mother's maiden name is my last name:(

[Mister J]

'Swordfish' didn't make the top 10? I guess Halle's ta-tas are the only relevance that movie is to have.

[nosebleed.]

<~~~ uses 14 -20 digit password at work that requires 2 uppercase, 2 lowercase, 2 non-consecutive numbers, 2 special characters, cannot form a word or name and cannot be similar to any previous passwords...and we have to change them every 90 days...or something like that. And I have 3 accounts at work that have those requirements. I'm sure I'm missing some stupid detail but basically that's the garbage I have to go through.

i HATE memorizing those damn things. I can't wait til we goto biometrics.

[Asteroid-Man]

My password is Random. not "random" but I mean, you'd never guess it.

[TNC9852002]

*changes his password*


heh. That was close!

-TNC

[Enriquespy]

I used to have one of those... as a mail acount :(

[Enriquespy]

DOublepost... my bad.

[Kritish]

Mines so bizarre that I don’t think anyone could guess it. People need to learn to use numbers in their passwords once in a while.

[bulok]

One time I was talking to a customer who had wanted to know the passwords on her e-mail accounts and since she was the account holder and verified I gave them to her. When it came to her husband's it was a woman's name and when i gave it to her she said "Wait a minute, that's my sister's name..."

It was a rather awkward moment.

[Colossal Spoons]

Haha, I had #8 forever!

[Kritish]

There’s enough blink182 fans out here for it to be the ninth most popular password?

[Halcohol]

I use my password for all of my accounts... like everything, which probably isn't the most secure way to do things, but it's so esoteric that I feel fairly comfortable using it.

Of course, I'll neeevvver teeeelll.

[Kyalesyin]

One time I was talking to a customer who had wanted to know the passwords on her e-mail accounts and since she was the account holder and verified I gave them to her. When it came to her husband's it was a woman's name and when i gave it to her she said "Wait a minute, that's my sister's name..."

It was a rather awkward moment.

Thats funny. I will admit, I've used the names of sexy fictional characters as my passwords before now, but nobody had any reason to know those.

I know all my wife's passwords, and vice versa.

[ghost_x]

Heres how my passwords work, I have one word and I type that word before the name of the site i'm using it for,

e.g.

******hype

******hotmail

[Kyalesyin]

Except now that we know that...

[ghost_x]

Now all you have to do is guess the word...the time starts, now

[Kyalesyin]

Hmm... six letters if you've not used anything funky...

[ghost_x]

It's actually 8 letters and I'm an incredibly funk orientated guy

[redmarvel]

My mother's maiden name is my last name:(

:csad: Then you need to ask your bank to use some other reference for their validation of your ID (grandmother's maiden name?)

[Kyalesyin]

Father's maiden name?

[redmarvel]

<~~~ uses 14 -20 digit password at work that requires 2 uppercase, 2 lowercase, 2 non-consecutive numbers, 2 special characters, cannot form a word or name and cannot be similar to any previous passwords...and we have to change them every 90 days...or something like that. And I have 3 accounts at work that have those requirements. I'm sure I'm missing some stupid detail but basically that's the garbage I have to go through.

i HATE memorizing those damn things. I can't wait til we goto biometrics.

Ours are only 8 characters with 1 of each of the above, but change every 30 days - and if you write them down anywhere and get caught, you'll be reprimanded. Three reprimands gets you fired. You can try entering a password 3 times, after that you're locked out of the system until your supervisor gets you unlocked.

Certainly more secure but it is a bloody pain.

I cheat, I pick a word based on a hobby/sport/book/interest and well... here's an example (that I have never used)

MARVEL -> maRvel -> m@Rv3l -> #1m@Rv3l

[redmarvel]

Father's maiden name?

applies if he changed his name after he got married :cwink:

[Kyalesyin]

applies if he changed his name after he got married :cwink:

Probably doesn't happen that often at the moment. Twenty years time though, who knows? Some of my gay friends have been changing their names when they marry...

[Mephistopheles]

Some of these actually helped me sneak into porn paysites. :ninja:

[ghost_x]

Some of these actually helped me sneak into porn paysites. :ninja:

Elaborate please

[Kyalesyin]

Elaborate please

Ditto

[Kmack]

I've used #10 before:O I know it's pretty obvious but it was just for an email account:o

[CyberFaust]

Elaborate please
verry much so, yes

[Clouseau]

at my last job, password requirements were really high...

* at least 8 letters long
* contain at least 1 upper-case letter
* contain at least 1 lower-case letter
* contain at least 1 symbol
* contain at least 1 number

...and passwords had to be reset every 90 days, which i hated, because about the time i'd get used to using one password, it'd be time to change it, and i'd spend the next 3 weeks typing in the wrong password, getting rejected, and then having to remember what i'd changed it to! :)

anyway, at one point, i had a password that i was particularly proud of despite its total lamehood... my shift ended at 4:00 pm, so my password for one period was:

GoHome@4pm

i loved it! i was so mad when the time came i had to change it!

ah well...

[chaseter]

What idiots tell these people their passwords?

[ScottyBBadd]

We had a class in orientation where I work on making passwords. They Had to have 1 Uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number, 1 symbol, and had to be at least be 7 characters long. Oh it is changed every 45 days. My 1st password was 19 characters long including spaces.

[blind_fury]

I use to use digdug as a password but then to throw hackers off I changed it dugdig.

Oh noes!!! My internetz been compromized!!!

[Dissonance]

2. 123456
/insert Spaceballs reference

[redmarvel]

What idiots tell these people their passwords?

They're probably not the person's current password. Also an IT tech may have passed on the passwords he sees most often. Since the IT department is usually the one asked to reset passwords, they know what most of them are.

[terry78]

They're probably not the person's current password. Also an IT tech may have passed on the passwords he sees most often. Since the IT department is usually the one asked to reset passwords, they know what most of them are.

*raises hand* I've had to reset more passwords than you can count, and most people use the simplest ones.