— What’s your PaSsWoRd?

Lorelle VanFossen, writing in The Blog Herald, has a list of the most commonly used passwords.

• Middle name
• Names spelled backwards
• Phone numbers
• The word “password”
• Birthdays
• Single or combination uses of love, god, sex, and money, such as lovemoney or sexgod
• qwerty
• abc123
• password1
• asdf
• car license
• letmein
• yourname1
• default

Also, according to Roger Grimes of InfoWorld, quoted in the same piece, there are many Christian sounding - like, for example, ilovejesus - logon usernames combined with the worst-sounding cuss words.

The conclusion is that in the vast majority of cases, it is fairly easy to guess the passwords of most users.

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