PC Tech's top 10 passwords people use

[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]

[BLACKOUT]It's actually 8 letters[/BLACKOUT] and I'm an incredibly funk orientated guy

 

[redmarvel]

My mother's maiden name is my last name

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

 

[Kyalesyin]

applies if he changed his name after he got married

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.

 

[ghost_x]

Some of these actually helped me sneak into porn paysites.

Elaborate please

 

[Kyalesyin]

Elaborate please

Ditto

 

[Kmack]

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

 

[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?