What do you expect, some of these people only earn £150,000 a year! To put it on a Post-it note and cellotape it to your laptop or screen. If asked in a survey I would give a password, but not one I use How do you knoww that people are giving you the real password. It generates a combination of random letters that becomes difficult to ‘guess’ but relatively easy to remember. We often suggest that our users define a phrase that they can remember and then take either the first letter of each work in that phrase, the first from he first word, second from the second work etc. Letmein was the standard password shipped with sage accounts I would check the points you present as facts. That european keyboards are not necessarily qwerty but qwertz and different combinations according to the languages. Taking in consideration that english is not the the most spoken first language in europe. How can somebody have “password” for password in 2008? The order they’re in depends on what the password is for, so if I forget it I can still figure it out. Oh man…Īnyway, in order to have complicated passwords that I can still remember, I created a system where I make up passwords using a pool of smaller groups of letters/words. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who think that 123 won’t be guessed…Īnd as for ‘letmein’… well that’s the password for a former colleague’s Adwords account. I see this sort of thing all the time at my work (I work for an ISP). Using a password that is someones name and some numbers is not nearly as secure but far better than “monkey” □ You should pick a password that is random letters, number and special characters. Thankfully my password isn’t listed here. Wow, they were cool □ i think i should create one site/blog for how to create strong passwords That said, a lot of people use stupid passwords. If you have 100 users, 2 of them use 1234 as their password, and all the others are good passwords, suddenly 1234 becomes the #1 password and everyone shakes their head at how horrible peoples’ passwords in general are. If you have a good password, the chances of it being duplicated are slim to none. Kind of flawed to look at it this way, as Michael said. LOL monkey!!! I have not thought of that one lol Combine two different people and you can easily remember them and no one should be able to figure it out (sammy0514). The easiest thing to remember when you combine safety is someone’s name along with some birthdays (the actually dates). * Johnny Vegas is better known than I suspected * Monkey means ‘password’ in Esperanto, French, German, Italian or Spanish To be fair, though a top 10 list will have stupid passwords only, it can represent only 1% of the total passwords in a database.Īcross Europe the #6 password is ‘monkey’ ?
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