Actually, that's about as easy to crack as it gets. Hackers have dictionaries too, you know. A brute force approach that automatically goes through the entire dictionary takes barely 2 minutes, maybe 10 if you include common variations and randomly placed capital letters. Not to mention that even an 8 year old can run such a script.Redingold said:I just pick my passwords randomly out of a dictionary. Then they're functionally unguessable.
Never trust an odd number. Not in a password, not anywhere.MasterProcrastinator said:How is it that '123456' and '12345678' are in 2nd and 3rd positions respectively, whilst '1234567' lags behind in 13th? 13th!
It's cause most sites that have a minimum password length either specify 6 or 8 characters.The Goat Tsar said:So "123456" and "12345678" are 2nd and 3rd, but "1234567" is 13th? Is it really that much of an improvement?
Might a regional thing. I lived in the south US and every school i attended i had at least one ashley in my class and at least three ashleys in my school (that isn't impressive until you know i went to a special school where my total 8th grade class size was 40 people in middle school) And i'm currently married to an ashley (although she spells it ashleigh).cerebus23 said:michael i can sorta see michael jordan, michael the archangel, but ashley is just sorta out of left field to me, cannot imagine where that comes from beating jesus, who apparently is new on the list, and is down 3 i guess from the last list.
wonder if there is some glorious female named ashley that everyone is so in love with hey name all their pw after this person. Or there is going to be a staggering number of girls growing up with the name ashley since using your daughters/childs name for a pw is pretty common.
But all my life i cannot even recall meeting many ashleys.
Yeah I've been using this method for a while as well. I mean by now I have like 15 different passwords I use for stuff, and having them all be randomized 18 letter gibberish is just too much of a pain, even if I am quite good at memorizing sequences.rayen020 said:I still stick to the XKCD password genteration system. [http://xkcd.com/936/]