{"id":6872,"date":"2010-12-14T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:53:12","slug":"no-surprises-at-all-in-gawkers-50-most-popular-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/no-surprises-at-all-in-gawkers-50-most-popular-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"No surprises at all in Gawker&#8217;s 50 most-popular passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/12\/13\/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> has the 50 most popular passwords from the <em>Gawker<\/em> data heist:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gawker-Media-50-top-passwords.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gawker Media 50 top passwords\" width=\"571\" height=\"1000\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gawker-Media-50-top-passwords.png 571w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gawker-Media-50-top-passwords-85x150.png 85w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gawker-Media-50-top-passwords-342x600.png 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recognize the pattern? Here&#8217;s a word cloud from my <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/recognize-your-password\/\" target=\"_blank\">last post on passwords<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Password-cloud.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Password cloud\" width=\"538\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Password-cloud.jpg 538w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Password-cloud-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Password-cloud-480x531.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other posts on this topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/passwords-and-the-average-user\/\" target=\"_blank\">Passwords and the average user<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/more-on-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">More on passwords<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/and-yet-more-on-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">And yet more on passwords<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/practically-speaking-the-end-is-in-sight-for-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\">Practically speaking, the end is in sight for passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Wall Street Journal has the 50 most popular passwords from the Gawker data heist: Recognize the pattern? Here&#8217;s a word cloud from my last post on passwords: Other posts on this topic: Passwords and the average user, More on passwords, And yet more on passwords, and Practically speaking, the end is [&hellip;]<\/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":[73,15],"tags":[109,156,836,139,334],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-fail","tag-passwords","tag-psychology","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1MQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16008,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/16008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}