Yup, I think one of those "password"s is mine. I truly couldn't care less about the security of my Gawker account. If they eliminated the password field entirely and just let people type whatever username they want, it'd be fine with me.
Re:Top 250 cracked Gawker passwords
by JoachimSchipper on Thursday December 23, 2010 @07:53AM
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I'm not sure people don't do that. Certainly, gawker isn't very valuable, but e.g. Myspace data (analysed at e.g. http://www.schneier.com/essay-144.html, money quote: "The most common password, 'password1,' was used in 0.22 percent of all accounts". I'm sure you can find the original file if you look hard enough) suggests that weak passwords are still quite common at presumably-valuable sites.
Re:Top 250 cracked Gawker passwords
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:46AM
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Around 4750 use 12345678 and subsets as their password!
If i want to post a comment on a lifehacker blog post, there is a decent chance that i give some random string and 123456 as the username and password. This is the case when i know that i won't be using it again. True that an email is associated with the login credentials but still this might be true for many of those passwords.