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Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-kinda-scary dept.

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."

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  1. Author should have... by 10sball · · Score: 5, Funny

    spent some of that time analyzing the strength of his hosting plan

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  2. Re:Slashdotted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It works fine for me. Post your Slashdot password and someone will login and check that your account isn't broken.

    Thanks,

    Slashdot Admin

  3. Re:Slashdotted. by kripkenstein · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Site Slashdotted by GotenXiao · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh, the irony. Bottom of the page:
    Need a cheap host that can survive the Digg effect?

    Links back to that guy's host XD
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    Goten Xiao
  5. Re:Slashdotted. by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did you get the combination of my luggage?

  6. Re:Site Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Need a cheap host that can survive the Digg effect?

    Yes.. the Digg effect, not the slashdot effect ;)
  7. Ironically enough... by not-admin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  8. Re:666 - myname by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would that be 'catch and release'?