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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. Re:666 - myname by rednip · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Most common passwords used:
    Really, it should read: the most commonly used passwords, by MySpace users who were targeted by and fell for a phisher.
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  2. Re:Flawed by Zapman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what it is. It's an analysis of passwords, obtained by a script kiddie's phishing site. The author makes no claims to 'analysing the strength of every myspace password' or some such. All the information you need to analyze his results are right there.

    He didn't 'choose' to study this... the data fell into his hands, and he offered analysis.

    This is a great little 'news for nerds' thing. The author says he has this data, he's smart enough not to publish it (just the analysis), he gives some interesting results from raw analysis of the 'data'. Take the story for what it is: Sunday morning on Slashdot.

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  3. Re:Almost by flooey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Really, it should read: the most commonly used passwords, by MySpace users who were targeted by and fell for a phisher" - or by people pretending to be MySpace users when targeted by a phisher - or by people giving a bogus password when targeted by a phisher.

    I'd imagine that's why fuckyou is up there so high. I sort of assume that's a message to the phisher rather than a real password.