[PLUG-TALK] Last Year's 25 Most Popular Passwords From Cracked Web Sites

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:44:15AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   For those who fight users to get them to use more secure passwords this
> might be either interesting or amusing:
> 
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/19/people-are-still-using-these-terrible-passwords/?wpisrc=nl_draw2>

Dammit!  Those jerks published my password, which is:

1)1234562)password3)123456784)qwerty5)123456)1234567897)football8)12349)123456710)baseball11)welcome12)123456789013)abc12314)11111115)1qaz2wsx16)dragon17)master18)monkey19)letmein20)login21)princess22)qwertyuiop23)solo24)passw0rd(usingzero)25)starwars

It took months to learn that monster, and now I must
learn a new one.  :-(

Seriously ... how long can a password be before it breaks
various websites and Linux apps?  Is anyone in the world
who can shoulder-surf a 250+ character password?

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com