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The Case For Lousy Passwords
itwbennett writes "Since the Gawker and McDonald's hack attacks, the web has been overrun with admonishments against using weak passwords. But weak passwords have their place too, says blogger Peter Smith. Like, for example, on Gawker, where he really doesn't care if it gets cracked. 'Life is too short to be worrying about 24 character passwords for trivial sites,' says Smith. And, to put things in perspective, your good passwords are pretty weak too. In a 2007 Coding Horror article, Jeff Atwood points out that the password "Fgpyyih804423" was cracked in 160 seconds by the Ophcrack cracker."
12345 has always worked for me, on every site I've used. Some sites require a 6, and some even 7 and 8. I've never been hacked once!
I'd also like to add that I'm a giant douche and a poopy-head!
Look it didn't even take me three minutes to crack his account.
Yeah, bugmenot is cool. I use it for my online banking.