Most common passwords list from 3 databases

Re:Most common passwords list from 3 databases by sketerpot on Sunday March 29, 2009 @11:26PM (#538152)

I just use the same username and password for all sites I don't care about that much. That way if I ever come back again I can just log in easily, and the process of signing up is so familiar I could do it in my sleep.

No, the real issue is password questions. "What is your mother's maiden name?" "In what city were you born?. Those always seem like a security hole, so I choose a random question and just remember that the answer to all my security questions is "the landed gentry". That's fairly secure, right?

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Re:Most common passwords list from 3 databases by jrockway on Monday March 30, 2009 @03:51AM (#538296)

Yeah, I especially like the sites that ask you to make your own security question. Mine is always, "what is your password?"

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Re:Most common passwords list from 3 databases by electromagnetic on Monday March 30, 2009 @10:00AM (#538508)

That's what my XP hint did, and my password contains an accented character (áéíóú/ÁÉÍÓÚ) as I noticed password breakers tend not to use these characters by default, but a lot of programs and services accept them. To say just hitting 'Alt Gr' can prevent any password breaker, I thought it was a pretty good safety measure.

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Re:Most common passwords list from 3 databases by tlrobinson on Sunday March 29, 2009 @11:28PM (#538155)

I hope that's not actually the answer you use...

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