MySpace Users Have Stronger Passwords Than Employees

Ant writes "A Wired News column reports on Bruce Schneier's analysis of data from a successful phishing attack on MySpace, and compares the captured user-passwords to an earlier data-set from a corporation. He concludes that MySpace users are better at coming up with good passwords than corporate drones." From the article: "We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said users haven't learned anything about security? But seriously, passwords are getting better. I'm impressed that less than 4 percent were dictionary words and that the great majority were at least alphanumeric. Writing in 1989, Daniel Klein was able to crack (.gz) 24 percent of his sample passwords with a small dictionary of just 63,000 words, and found that the average password was 6.4 characters long."

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Re:Awesome statistic

[smooth wombat]

Even better, my brother's wife's mother works for a small AM radio station. She's in charge of figuring out who owes the station what for advertising.

She recently said that the most deadbeat non-payers are christian advertisers. Sometimes she has to practically fight with them to get them to pay.

Draw your own conclusions.