The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014: We’re All Doomed
It’s 2015 and it would be nice to think that people had learned what makes a good password by now. They haven’t. And this list of the 25 most popular passwords of 2014–maybe also make that the worst–proves it.
Listen people… go get LastPass, start using two-factor authentication (I recommend Authy), and let's stop this stupid password madness.
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Top 25 passwords of 2014
1. 123456 (Unchanged)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 12345 (Up 17)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
5. qwerty (Down 1)
6. 123456789 (Unchanged)
7. 1234 (Up 9)
8. baseball (New)
9. dragon (New)
10. football (New)
11. 1234567 (Down 4)
12. monkey (Up 5)
13. letmein (Up 1)
14. abc123 (Down 9)
15. 111111 (Down 8)
16.mustang (New)
17. access (New)
18. shadow (Unchanged)
19. master (New)
20. michael (New)
21. superman (New)
22. 696969 (New)
23. 123123 (Down 12)
24. batman (New)
25. trustno1 (Down 1)
Seriously, don't be "that guy"… src: http://goo.gl/KJmrHk
First: http://politicalblindspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/idiot.jpg
Then: http://www.blogcdn.com/downloadsquad.switched.com/media/2010/09/skroob.jpg
In conclusion: Don't be a Skroob!
BWAHAAHAHA… YES +Bliss Morgan (also, WTF G+… give us images in comments!!!!!)
(Srsly! Tumblr has outstripped them so far in that arena, and I have so many excellent reaction images….)
I use a mnemonic that changes slightly for each site. This allows me to have both one password and different passwords for each site. So if someone hacks my Facebook they won't be able to use the same password for email. It's working well for me and is a lot easier to remember than I thought it might be.
+Bliss Morgan I have a folder broken down into categories for exactly that sort of thing. LOL. Could be get this soon +Google+ Developers? Please?!
+Jess Nut I know others who do that or something similar and it works for them. I just like that LastPass works everywhere and takes any level of guess work out of it for me. It also has a feature to "one-click" auto change passwords on popular sites if they've been exploited. https://blog.lastpass.com/2014/12/introducing-auto-password-changing-with.html/
+Paul Spoerry I'm still leery of giving up control of my passwords. If something were to happen to LassPass then you would not have access to your accounts. If this includes email, you could not even use password recovery options.
wow i've…never used any of these o.o im not even joking.
Same here, I've always used complete sentences for passwords when the field was big enough. Otherwise I use inside jokes with randomized ascii.
+Jess Nut LastPass doesn't have your unencrypted passwords. So unless they hacked LastPass and stole their database AND cracked your master password (or forced you to give it up) then they can't get in them. All encryption and decryption happens on your local machine, never on theirs. And if you're afraid of your master password being compromised you can double up by using Two-Factor authentication. That way if they did compromise LastPass, and they did somehow get your master password, it'd all be useless without your two-factor device. 🙂
+Paul Spoerry I don't mean like that. I mean like the service no longer being supported or the program not working for some reason. I don't want to get locked out of my email because of the latest patch update or system outage.
oh… fair enough +Jess Nut. For what it's worth at every turn they've been suuuuuuper transparent. If that were to happen I think you'd see it a mile away. Plus, you can decrypt locally without being online since you have the master key. But I totally understand the apprehension.
I was once one of those guys. I had made my PIN to my ATM card my Birth date, so when someone stole my wallet at a party, the scum-bag had my PIN right there at hand with my drivers license (which is apparently what thieves do first, try the birth day).