The Most Common iPhone Passcodes

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:56AM from the one-two-three-four dept.

Orome1 writes "The problem of poor passwords is not confined to computer use, and that fact was illustrated by an app developer who has added code to capture user passcodes to one of its applications. 'Because Big Brother's [the app in question] passcode setup screen and lock screen are nearly identical to those of the actual iPhone passcode lock, I figured that the collected information would closely correlate with actual iPhone passcodes,' says Daniel Amitay. It turns out that of the 204,508 recorded passcodes, 15% were one of the most common ten."

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Re:What I find most amazing ... by drb226 · 2011-06-14 12:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

10^4 = 10000
Re:Nitpick by blueg3 · 2011-06-14 13:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

It brings it closer to an 83% chance of accessing it, actually. Not 100%. (15% of top passcodes x only 20% of iPhones locked = 3% of total iPhones use one of the top passcodes).