What's YOUR password?

stoneill

Is yours on this list of the most common?

The Worst Passwords of 2012, including their current ranking and any changes from the 2011 list:

1. password (Unchanged)
2, 123456 (Unchanged)
3. 12345678 (Unchanged)
4. abc123 (Up 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. monkey (Unchanged)
7. letmein (Up 1)
8. dragon (Up 2)
9. 111111 (Up 3)
10. baseball (Up 1)
11. iloveyou (Up 2)
12. trustno1 (Down 3)
13. 1234567 (Down 6)
14. sunshine (Up 1)
15. master (Down 1)
16. 123123 (Up 4)
17. welcome (New)
18. shadow (Up 1)
19. ashley (Down 3)
20. football (Up 5)
21. jesus (New)
22. michael (Up 2)
23. ninja (New)
24. mustang (New)
25. password1 (New)


I have to wonder how they know - excuse me sir, I'm doing a survey, can you tell me your password?

Vicar in a tutu

PENIS ... was too long though.

It said password must have 8 characters. So mine is Snow white and the seven dwarves

antodeco

HeeHee you said Ass

The Wallet inspector must have been doing the rounds with the password police.

I tried using 'fortnight' as my password before but it said it was too weak

:pac:

Ted_YNWA

sh!t , they found my password notebook

MadsL

Mine is **************

danniemcq

Phew

my hunter2 password seems safe yet...

danniemcq

Hah just looking at this though and you really can see peoples uselessness for passwords.

Number 1 Password is password.

So to make things more secure over the last while i've noticed more and more that you have to have a number or special character included to make it harder to creack so what do people do?

password1

i know some of these are maybe multi logins for work and need a million passwords etc but come one people!

Pherekydes

I don't actually know my password. When I chose it I just closed my eyes and mashed the keyboard. Any time I need to enter it I do the same. It works nearly every time.

MadsL

MadsL wrote: »

Mine is **************

Alright it was only a question, no need for that.

the groutch

how about P@55vv()rD

Posy

At the time of the 'great boards hack' I think my password was asdfghjkl.
This was also my email password.

I don't think it had occurred to me before that anyone would be interested in hacking my boards account or email.
I also thought I was great for not using qwerty... :pac:


Obviously since then I've changed it to passw0rd. Like, I'm not a complete idiot.

kingtut

I have a different password for each thing that I use

.... but I have any easy way of remembering them because I use ...

xxxxxxxx_boards, xxxxxxxx_gmail etc .....

Doyler92

My password is "incorrect". So whenever I forget my password the computer tells me you password is incorrect.

jjbrien

changeme is another one that should have made that list

My ex, who was a dumbass, a very paranoid dumbass, spent an hour trying to get into my email account using passwords such as my horse's name, my budgie's name, my (previous) ex's name; throwing a minor tantrum each time one didn't work, and getting a sly grin when he thought of the next one. I watched. It was entertaining. And no, I never tried to guess his. It just didn't seem worthwhile or interesting to me.

petes

Deleted User wrote: »

My ex, who was a dumbass, a very paranoid dumbass, spent an hour trying to get into my email account using passwords such as my horse's name, my budgie's name, my (previous) ex's name; throwing a minor tantrum each time one didn't work, and getting a sly grin when he thought of the next one. I watched. It was entertaining. And no, I never tried to guess his. It just didn't seem worthwhile or interesting to me.

Is it budgese?

CreepingDeath

I use the LastPass browser plugin to generate & store random & secure passwords for each website.

So I only need to remember one master password for LastPass, but wouldn't have a clue what each individual websites password is.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Mine is QWERTY.

inforfun

Forgot.

Insurgent

Insurgent wrote: »

Is it budgese?

Ermahgerd!

anncoates

0000

5starpool

I use the next evolution of password ingenuity................password2.

9959

I change mine all the time, so today it's.....wtf...can't remember sorry.
Get back to me tomorrow, I'll have a new one then.

kevc2

stoneill wrote: »

Is yours on this list of the most common?

The Worst Passwords of 2012, including their current ranking and any changes from the 2011 list:

1. password (Unchanged)
2, 123456 (Unchanged)
3. 12345678 (Unchanged)
4. abc123 (Up 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. monkey (Unchanged)
7. letmein (Up 1)
8. dragon (Up 2)
9. 111111 (Up 3)
10. baseball (Up 1)
11. iloveyou (Up 2)
12. trustno1 (Down 3)
13. 1234567 (Down 6)
14. sunshine (Up 1)
15. master (Down 1)
16. 123123 (Up 4)
17. welcome (New)
18. shadow (Up 1)
19. ashley (Down 3)
20. football (Up 5)
21. jesus (New)
22. michael (Up 2)
23. ninja (New)
24. mustang (New)
25. password1 (New)


I have to wonder how they know - excuse me sir, I'm doing a survey, can you tell me your password?

When some hackers release a database of users and their passwords, these passwords are sorted by most common and then the media reports on it. I think one of the recent ones was when the playstation databases got released.

alphabeat

Ride me sideways

was another one

Gamayun

Apparently a longer password is better than a complex one. So ireallylikepoptartsido is better than Sv_tU%# . Something to do with the hack bots not recognising words, Also it's easier to remember/type.

Wacker The Attacker

Gamayun wrote: »

Apparently a longer password is better than a complex one. So ireallylikepoptartsido is better than Sv_tU%# . Something to do with the hack bots not recognising words, Also it's easier to remember/type.

Mine is proletariantitwank

2 stroke

Mine is confidential.

ArtSmart

Deleted User wrote: »

My ex, who was a dumbass, a very paranoid dumbass, spent an hour trying to get into my email account using passwords such as my horse's name, my budgie's name, my (previous) ex's name; throwing a minor tantrum each time one didn't work, and getting a sly grin when he thought of the next one. I watched. It was entertaining. And no, I never tried to guess his. It just didn't seem worthwhile or interesting to me.

is it budgese?

is it?

is it???

ArtSmart

Insurgent wrote: »

Is it budgese?

lol. damn. premature postulation

Thoie

I'm just puzzled that so many people sit around thinking "Hmm, I need a password, something not easily guessed, I know - monkey!"

Password, 12345, qwerty, I can understand. A whole bunch of people simultaneously thinking "monkey" is just a bit worrying.

GLaDOS

Gamayun wrote: »

Apparently a longer password is better than a complex one. So ireallylikepoptartsido is better than Sv_tU%# . Something to do with the hack bots not recognising words, Also it's easier to remember/type.

Annoyingly, some sites put a low enough limit on the amount of characters you can use in a password, tickermaster.ie I know make you keep it below 10 or something

im invisible

antidisestablishmentarianism69

Poutbutton

LoL at his thread so funny but hey serious topic like imagine people use the same password for banking as Bebo! OMactualG

The great thing about boards is that it will always hide your password if you enter it in a post. Try it out.

Here's mine: *********

Cool, isn't it?!

Poutbutton

eh...you're not invisible at all at all..

StupidLikeAFox

Fairly sure youre taking the piss but.....my boards password is *******

EDIT: Yup, the system works

Nulty

CJC999 wrote: »

Mine is QWERTY.

Yours is crap

mauzo

I use the same password for everything, was watching a YouTube video at the same time I was setting up this account, so the user who uploaded the video is my password for everything now.

Crazy....yes.

starviewadams

If your password is ''password'' you are an absolute idiot and deserve whatever bad shít that happens to the accounts you have protected with such stupidity.

tolosenc

Mine is part of a line from a play I studied for my junior cert.

RobbingBandit

My password is pissoffyou****ingtrolls spelled out with random upper and lower case letters.

El Horseboxo

One I used to use was Ant1Const1tuc1onalMente.

kincsem

fred is easy to type. look at the keyboard.
fredwest is also easy to type.

TeddyTedson

Mine is my username plus 2 numbers;)

gammygils

My Daughter's name & Year Of Birth. Used to be Daughter's name & age. But as the years went on I forgot how old she was when I first chose it!!!

Martyn1989

I use the one password for everything (within reason), its someones name in most cases, trouble is different websites want different password specifications and want numbers and upper/lower case so I end up with the following variations

johnmurphy
Johnmurphy
johnmurphy1234
Johnmurphy1234
john1234
John1234

Its a complete disaster, if I get asked for log in details and my computer dosn't remember I'm not logging in.

surprise surprise johnmurphy is not my real password

juan.kerr

What about password5?

juan.kerr

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Mine is my username plus 2 numbers;)

43?

Daftendirekt

I wonder how many failed login attempts there've been on Boards since this thread was started.