The most common first character for passwords
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
I'd say you must have a lot of very trusting friends, clients and coworkers if you've gathered enough data to make a statistically significant analysis. Either that or you've written a phishing website for them ;) Steve T
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I'd say you must have a lot of very trusting friends, clients and coworkers if you've gathered enough data to make a statistically significant analysis. Either that or you've written a phishing website for them ;) Steve T
First, I wouldn't go so far as to say my experience allows "statistically significant analysis." Just a simple observation. The reason I've seen so many is that among friends and clients, I often endup being the defacto fix-it guy along with the programmer geek. At work, I deal a lot with the intranet. Passwords are stored in plain text in a DB. Bad practice? Yes. A big deal for our situation? Not so far.
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
I'd say P(assword) is most common. BW
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First, I wouldn't go so far as to say my experience allows "statistically significant analysis." Just a simple observation. The reason I've seen so many is that among friends and clients, I often endup being the defacto fix-it guy along with the programmer geek. At work, I deal a lot with the intranet. Passwords are stored in plain text in a DB. Bad practice? Yes. A big deal for our situation? Not so far.
Larsenal wrote: The most common first character for passwords Hain,I am going to tell you the secret,please please please don't hack my account, My Every password start with LETTER 'P' :) Bad Joke, I Believe :sigh:
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
Most users I know simply re-enter their usernames as a password - dumb, I know, but very common. One of the engineers who developed Win2K told a group of us in Phoenix that he always uses the same password - cantremember. I thought that rather clever, and one that a hacker might dismiss as too obvious. And yes, I have tried it on various MS products and websites. He is certainly smart enough to have removed any access that one provides before it went public, so I'm not giving away anything here. It might also not have been true, as the point he was making was a good one. Although we in the industry stress using passwords that are secure, if we make it too hard to remember, users will not use the security we provide. There's a balance to be struck between ease of use and security. "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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From my encounters (not my own passwords of course, but those of friends, clients and coworkers), I'd have to say that it is... drumroll please.... 2 What say you?
I have never, ever, used 2 as the first character in my password. :) I have 1 password for secure stuff, and 1 password for web sites. Both are combinations of letters, numbers and for my system password symbols. (I don't do symbols for web sites because in the past I've found some sites urlencode your passwords before encoding them into a database, etc, but don't bother urlencoding them when they make the later comparisons.) I can type my passwords blindfolded 8 out of 10 times, but ask me to spell them out and I'll need to write them down first.
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