This week's discussion question was about passwords and password strength, and from the responses I've seen so far it was enlightening for some of you to see the relative strength and weakness of your passwords.
I'm just going to leave this image here, it's the 25 worst passwords of 2013. If you read the story at the Tech Times website, they're also the most common. It's not actually a direct match, but it's pretty close. Don't use these passwords! If you are still doing so after class, then you deserve to have all your monkeys stolen.
I agree with you! If someone uses any of these passwords (still) after this lesson, they deserve to get hacked! One that I would have never thought would be on the worst password like is "letmein" because I think its clever and hilarious. Fortunately, I never used any of these super obvious passwords, and my password strength is fairly good; it will take 4,000 years for a PC to crack.
ReplyDeleteSome of those passwords are a little silly and yet seem very likely that a lot of people use them. I am going to be honest, I have used the password "password" once before. It wasn't for anything serious just a log in for a online website I was using. With that said I wouldn't ever use such a password like that again.
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I really don't understand how anyone could use any of these passwords. I think it might be because they think it is too easy, and that no one will ever guess it. I wonder how they got the information to make an actual list for worst passwords. Did they actually ask people if they think their password is dumb and what is it? And people actually provided them? That would be pretty fun and scary.
ReplyDeleteI actually do use number 6 with a letter at the end, but only for my NSC log in, since it changes so often it is something fairly easy for me to remember, but I have never or will ever use this for anything really important.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting post, back in the myspace days I use to use the password abc123. So that brought a lot of memories, now I know why my page was always getting "phished". Now that I know how to check my password in how strong it is I will not ever make a password until I test it on that website provided to us on the discussion post. My personal opinion if it takes the computer at least 100 years then it should be safe enough to use. Those are the worst passwords but honestly with the security that is provided right now if someone types the wrong password the system will block you from entering and it would need you to verify who you are by email or text. Thus there are precautions that help the user out.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome list. I thought password would've been top ranked but it is second. I have seen many people with the password of 123456. Come to think of it, when I use to work at the honda dealership everyone had the same password 1234 just different login. I will have to save this image and forward it to my family member some of their passwords are actually listed on here.
ReplyDeleteThis list is great and the passwords are horrible. I have seen so many people use the 123456 password and think its ridiculous because obviously you aren't the only person in the world that has used that password. Very easy and unsafe.
ReplyDeleteWow, this makes me feel much better about my choice of passwords. This looks like a list that a child would choose from. You are absolutely right. People deserve what they get if this is their level of creativity. I have seen generic passwords used in situtions where people didnt feel security was important. Like systems where many people share a password or log in.
ReplyDeleteI honestly do not know why someone would use any of these passwords for important items, or even the password for their phones or tablets. It is kind of asking for someone to get into your information with these types of passwords. The only reason as to why people would use these passwords is because it is easy for them to remember it themselves, but they have to realize that others will quickly catch on if they really wanted to.
ReplyDelete-Shane Booth
These passwords are awful. The funny part is that a couple of these passwords are actually default passwords for some devices such as routers. The good news is modern websites and databases don't allow for these simple passwords anymore due to complexity requirements. But I'm sure the people who make these passwords have adjusted to make the 'simplest complex passwords' possible.
ReplyDeleteBy going to that website you posted in the most recent post, and testing out my passwords now I know which ones are strong and weak. Looking at the list pictured above I can say I have never once you used any of those as any of my passwords. It is scare to know that someone can hack into your email and other personal accounts but now there are websites to test out your password strengths, makes me feel somewhat better about the odds of someone hacking into my personal accounts.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very important to read. We have all heard or experienced a horror story of someone getting hacked. So we all know how serious it really is. I get that with having so many different accounts we try to keep passwords simple. This is a prime example that simple is not good. It really only takes a little more effort in creating a stronger password. I have never used any of the passwords on the list but in the exercise given to us I was surprised. I will be passing along that website to lots of people.
ReplyDeleteThis last discussion was very important especially for you professor, from now on i going to make sure to have good password I already change the one I was using but I have a question why do tell you not to use the same password on other websities
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