{"id":12117,"date":"2011-11-19T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:37:29","slug":"internet-users-password-security-still-hasnt-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/19\/internet-users-password-security-still-hasnt-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet users’ password security still hasn’t improved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you use any of the following terms as your password<\/a>? If so, congratulations, you’re helping keep the rest of us from being as easily hacked as you are:<\/p>\n

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1. password
\n2. 123456
\n3. 12345678
\n4. qwerty
\n5. abc123
\n6. monkey
\n7. 1234567
\n8. letmein
\n9. trustno1
\n10. dragon
\n11. baseball
\n12. 111111
\n13. iloveyou
\n14. master
\n15. sunshine
\n16. ashley
\n17. bailey
\n18. passw0rd
\n19. shadow
\n20. 123123
\n21. 654321
\n22. superman
\n23. qazwsx
\n24. michael
\n25. football<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This list is from SplashData, who produce (among other things) a password-keeper utility. Last year, Gawker published the 50 top passwords in a graphic:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a word cloud from an earlier post on passwords<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Other posts on this topic: opportunities for humour with your bank’s secret questions<\/a>, xkcd on the paradox of passwords<\/a>, Passwords and the average user<\/a>, More on passwords<\/a>, And yet more on passwords<\/a>, and Practically speaking, the end is in sight for passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you use any of the following terms as your password? If so, congratulations, you’re helping keep the rest of us from being as easily hacked as you are: 1. password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123 6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9. trustno1 10. dragon 11. baseball 12. 111111 13. iloveyou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[109,129,58,836,139,334],"class_list":["post-12117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-passwords","tag-psychology","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-39r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17495,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/17495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}