Passwords That Should Never Be Used

The Original Yama writes "Strong passwords are your first step in securing your systems. If a password can be easily guessed or compromised using a simple dictionary attack, your systems will be vulnerable to hackers, worms, Trojans, and viruses. PCLinuxOnline provides an alphanumerical list of list of commonly used weak passwords that should never be used. If any of these passwords look hauntingly familiar and are being used, you should change the password immediately."

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missed one...

[Anonymous Coward]

I worked ISP tech support and the one I remember showing up way too often was:

thx1138

I've secured my Internet privacy

[prostoalex]

I've protected my privacy and use Gator for all my passwords.

I keep it simple

[Anonymous Coward]

I use PASSWORD for everything.

Re:I keep it simple

[ConceptJunkie]

Yeah, I could have guessed that. I think a lot of people are using your /. account to post. I see that username dozens of times in every story.

I'm surprised that the classic "xyzzy" isn't in the list. Other words I would have expected to see "fred", "bofh", "windows", and "billgatescanbitemyshinymetalass".

Anonymous Coward NY Times passwd

[me98411]

I do not see "slashdotcoward" in the list. Looks like it is a strong passwd. Isn't that the login and passwd used by Anonymous Coward for NY times?

Top 10 Passwords Not to be Used

[AtariAmarok]

10. iluvalqueda

9. idareyoutoguessthis

8. oldfattylumpkinwhosewisenoseledushere

7. *******

6. (my actual password)

5. cowboyneal

4. pencil

3. neo

2. secret

1. password

Re:Top 10 Passwords Not to be Used

[Josh Booth]

I'm surprised "gandalf" is not there. Everyone knows that it's the password of every other root account in the world.

Re:Top 10 Passwords Not to be Used

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymously to not get myself in trouble... hi mike!

I worked with this engineer, call him mike, who had an account on a customer's machine. He was on vacation when the customer wanted a little help with that machine. The other engineer and I call mike to get his login and password to do some remote maintenance. Mike is reluctant to tell us the password. We think he's just being secretive, until he asks to be taken off speaker phone so he can tell us. His password: bigblackdonkeydick.

Sometimes password isn't so bad...

Guess I should change my password

[lightspawn]

I've been using that same old password from one of my favorite movies.

Of course, I use the variant spelling.

An honest look at password creation

[WarPresident]

(January)
User: Tim
Password: NEWUSER

YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD EVERY 30 DAYS
PASSWORD MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6 ALPHA AND 2 NUMERIC/OTHER CHARACTERS
New Password: password

PASSWORD MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6 ALPHA AND 2 NUMERIC/OTHER CHARACTERS
New Password: password01

OK ...
(February)
User: Tim
Password: password01

YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD EVERY 30 DAYS
PASSWORD MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6 ALPHA AND 2 NUMERIC/OTHER CHARACTERS
New Password: password01

THIS PASSWORD HAS BEEN USED RECENTLY
YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD EVERY 30 DAYS
PASSWORD MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6 ALPHA AND 2 NUMERIC/OTHER CHARACTERS
New Password: password02

OK ...
(March)
User: Tim
Password: password02

YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD EVERY 30 DAYS
PASSWORD MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6 ALPHA AND 2 NUMERIC/OTHER CHARACTERS
New Password: password03

OK ...

repeat ad nauseum

Re:An honest look at password creation

[BRSloth]

Login: yes
Password: i dont have one
password is incorrect

Login: yes
Password: incorrect

notobvious

[richie2000]

The UUCP password for all customers on a certain large american ISP was for a very long time 'notobvious'. I still get a chuckle out of imagining how it came to be:

Technician: What should we set the password to, boss?
Boss: I don't care, just pick one that's not obvious.
Technician: Right, boss.

To be fair, it was just the password to login to the modem server, every customer had an additional real password to actually access the UUCP box behind it.

Spaceballs

[jubitzu]

Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life. That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage. President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage.