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75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email
wiredmikey writes "Over 250,000 user names, email addresses, and passwords used for social networking sites can easily be found online. A study of the data collected showed that 75 percent of social networking username and password samples collected online were identical to those used for email accounts. The password data was gathered from blogs, torrents, online collaboration services and other sources. It was found that 43 percent of the data was leaked from online collaboration tools while 21 percent of data was leaked from blog postings. Meanwhile, torrents and users of other social hubs were responsible for leaking 10 percent and 18 percent of user data respectively...."
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
Hax0red sites!
Shame this isn't ten years ago. You coulda got some VC funding for that idea.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Apparently 75% of the passwords tested were hunter2.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
When it comes to passwords, this dilbert comic comes to mind- http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-01-17/
What if they are gay? ;)
That's why his usernames are all something along the lines of "IAM_NOT_GAY"
It's a sort of psychosexual firewall. Only someone who can embrace being gay and not gay at once may pass.
Or Pat.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
hunter2
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
See, i only see *******, i love this slashdot security mechanism. you could not see the guy password :D