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Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords
Rub3X writes "Author found 20 thousand MySpace passwords on a phishing site and did some tests on them. They were tested for strength, length and a number of other things. Also tested was the most popular password, and the most popular email service used when registering for myspace."
spent some of that time analyzing the strength of his hosting plan
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That's amazing! I've got the same password on my luggage!
It works fine for me. Post your Slashdot password and someone will login and check that your account isn't broken.
Thanks,
Slashdot Admin
Slashdotted [...] CPU quota exceeded.
Indeed. Yet, just by reading the summary, I can tell it would have been a juicy article:
They were tested for strength, length and a number of other things.
Circumference? Growth ratio?
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Links back to that guy's host XD
Goten Xiao
How did you get the combination of my luggage?
Pf, that can't be right, everyone knows the most common passwords are:
God
Sex
Love
and Secret
My UID is prime... is yours?
Hehe... :-)
When I'm asked to enter a credit card number, I usually enter my real one. It only works in Russia, there's no money on it (and the only reason I got it was because it was free) but the bastards may be charged with CC fraud. Hell, I think there are more carders in Russia than legitimate CC owners
Agreed. One would have to assume that there would be a high likelyhood that people who would fall for a phishing attack would be the same kinds of people who are uneducated about internet security, hence, strong password usage.
Not only that, but in selecting Myspace to study strength of passwords, you're going to come to the conclusion that everyone on the planet is a moron. It would be like judging the intelligence of the average person by giving IQ tests during American Idol.
username: CmdrTaco
password: DiggFTW
TIA!
I think you should take the same advise. I just stole your account and now I'm posting as you Mr. Coward.....HAHAHAHA!
Yes.. the Digg effect, not the slashdot effect
Interesting. It's only three steps from "I love you to" "Fuck you". That sounds about right.
At the bottom of his article it has an add for:
'Need a cheap host that can survive the Digg effect?'
That links to his webhost... Guess it doesn't survive it very well, eh?
Given the number of people on MySpace who can spell properly, I would say quite a large proportion ;)
US is now divided as the "Red" and "blue" states. Red States = communist countries. Coincidence? I think not
My password is: "admin". Thanks for looking into this. (Username is also "admin")
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
don't forget endurance (:
-sekunder
"iloveyou"
Damn! Tiger Tanaka has now been compromised! Must alert MI6.
Would that be 'catch and release'?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Well, yeah, if you're phishing for bank account info. What the hell is to be gained by hijacking MySpace accounts?
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Is *******. That way I can always see what I'm typing.
you can offer to remove all the annoying backgrounds, music, movies, and spyware from the profiles of the stolen accounts, and threaten to put up even more of them if they don't pay up. it might work even better than stealing bank accounts
A mouse is a device used to point to the xterm you want to type in
My password is ********
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.