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You definitely don't want to be using these

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 1 month ago

All I see is *********

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All I'm seeing is asterisks

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It censors your password in real time. Check it out: **********

[–] iii@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Nice thats usefull hunter2

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Password now set to "Bitwarden"

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Mine is "masterpassword"

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hackers (1995) taught me the four most commonly used passwords are "love", "sex", "'secret", and "god".

"secret" is there. "iloveyou" has love in it.

I wonder how true that actually was in the 90s.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Before password composition rules, those were actually quite common, as well as passwords that were just the same as the username. Heck, it wasn't until that long ago that router manufacturers used to ship with admin/admin as the default credentials.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Honestly every networking company that couldn't be bothered to ship with randomized creds physically embedded/etched somewhere on the device should've probably went out of business. The cost has always been minimal and the increased security value has always been readily apparent.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, now in this enlightened future, they've ascended to admin/password. 😶

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hack the planet.

At least it isn't always Swordfish!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Operation suck his dick while he hacks the feds.

Such a great movie.

[–] molten@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Mine is Secretsexgodoflove69!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

according to data from the password security website called NordPass all of which would take a hacker less than a second to crack. Take a look at this quality design to learn about popular passwords that you definitely shouldn’t use such as 123456 which was used 3 million times, 123456789 which was used 1.6 million times, 12345678 which was used 885 thousand times, “password” which was used 692 thousand times and qwerty123 which was used 643 thousand times.

Is it normal for a password manager to be able to recognize which passwords are being used? Does this reflect badly on NordPass?

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1-2-3-4-5-6!? That's the same code I use on my luggage!

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

I'm surrounded by assholes!

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago

They didn't pull this data from their own users, but rather from six public leaks.

[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago
[–] naticus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The thumbnail shows "assword" so I'll upvote.

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[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's with dragon and monkey?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because dragons are cool and monkeys are funny.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Can't argue with that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] who@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a little surprised not to see "changeme" on this list.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

The default ca cert store password in Java is "changeit"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1Frog_isDancingOnMyPizzaNow!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I laughed at my phone in public.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am really surprised some common shit is not there, like hello, hello1234, abcd1234 (and other perms have numbers in front, etc)

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So i guess p@s5w0RD123pA55wOrD would be super strong.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

From my experience brute forcing passwords, no. It’s smart enough to try character substitutions and it annoys me so much that the FBI recommends this practice.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just see *******************

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Need your credit card number and the 3 digit number at the back of the card to see what i typed.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's okay at best. Better if a passphrase, just random, impersonal words, something like this (~50 bits of entropy):

"virtual raging vineyard clad runner"

Best is a long, completely random string, stored in the password manager that you should be using anyways ~150 bits of entropy):

"hX0hZ1QTWtQo(h[Ta9jH]TmsVIhUTgSE"

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did use a password manager, but issue is i still need password for the password manager so it can't be random lol.

[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

I see password and password1

Mfw I’m sittin’ safe all the way down here at password69 😎

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Monkey 🐵

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Not using reindeerflotilla, smh

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 6 points 1 month ago

Everybody else uses a first name or birthday combo

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

trustevery1

[–] ns1@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strange how much higher the top one, 123456, is than the others, and how the most popular ones with repeating numbers also have 6 digits. Why do people like 6 digits so much more than 5 or 7?

[–] emb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Because of composition rules. Fewer characters, much easier to brute force guess.

So when a site tells you 'Your password must be at least 6 characters long', and they just want to get past it to get to the content, the number is already on their mind.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

P@ssw0rd no one will ever guess this one!

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Pick password Unga. Monkey.

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