Do yourself a favour

[andrewducker]

This is the list of the top 500 most common passwords.  These are the ones that the bots try _first_ when they're trying to hack your account.

If you have any of these passwords, for God's sake change it.

Comments

[accordingly.livejournal.com]

Ha. I love how many of them are rude.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I always suspected my password for "stuff I don't care about" was easy, but never that easy. Have changed a couple on the basis of any personal information is stuff to keep personal.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

abgrtyu?? Most of the rest are obvious or self-explanatory, but where the heck does that one come from?

[andrewducker]

Dunno, it's an odd one...

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Some common non-English keyboard layout?

Yours,
Etaoin Shrdlu

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

It seems to be used in sex sites. At least, that's what a quick Google search told me...

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

My passwords pass!

:D

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I have one password that I -thought- would be common, for accounts that I mostly don't care about. (For example, I use it for newspapers that require a log in.)

I'm shocked that it wasn't on the list.

(On the other hand, I have used 'password' for one account that I obviously do NOT care about.)

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Any word in the dictionary or in common usage is a bad idea and most sites these days require at least one numeric digit in there. The trouble then is you just get loads of people using 'password0' :) The sysadmin at uni years ago used to assign the day of the week if you forgot your password, asking you to change it right away - a quick scan through the unix etc/passwd file checking for weekdays and sure enough there were a good many. Dumb policy = weak security. Checking for obvious variations like tuesday0 also turned up a few. This was all in the scope of learning about computer security you understand. One staff boxen had passwords that were all dictionary words and read out something like:

why
are
you
cracking
passwords

and then something offensive about geeks. heh.