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You definitely don't want to be using these

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 37 points 3 days ago

All I see is *********

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All I'm seeing is asterisks

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It censors your password in real time. Check it out: **********

[–] iii@mander.xyz 11 points 3 days ago

Nice thats usefull hunter2

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

The thumbnail shows "assword" so I'll upvote.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I am really surprised some common shit is not there, like hello, hello1234, abcd1234 (and other perms have numbers in front, etc)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Password now set to "Bitwarden"

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

Mine is "masterpassword"

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hackers (1995) taught me the four most commonly used passwords are "love", "sex", "'secret", and "god".

"secret" is there. "iloveyou" has love in it.

I wonder how true that actually was in the 90s.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Before password composition rules, those were actually quite common, as well as passwords that were just the same as the username. Heck, it wasn't until that long ago that router manufacturers used to ship with admin/admin as the default credentials.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, now in this enlightened future, they've ascended to admin/password. 😶

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Honestly every networking company that couldn't be bothered to ship with randomized creds physically embedded/etched somewhere on the device should've probably went out of business. The cost has always been minimal and the increased security value has always been readily apparent.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hack the planet.

At least it isn't always Swordfish!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Operation suck his dick while he hacks the feds.

Such a great movie.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

according to data from the password security website called NordPass all of which would take a hacker less than a second to crack. Take a look at this quality design to learn about popular passwords that you definitely shouldn’t use such as 123456 which was used 3 million times, 123456789 which was used 1.6 million times, 12345678 which was used 885 thousand times, “password” which was used 692 thousand times and qwerty123 which was used 643 thousand times.

Is it normal for a password manager to be able to recognize which passwords are being used? Does this reflect badly on NordPass?

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

1-2-3-4-5-6!? That's the same code I use on my luggage!

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

I'm surrounded by assholes!

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 days ago

They didn't pull this data from their own users, but rather from six public leaks.

[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

Monkey 🐵

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So i guess p@s5w0RD123pA55wOrD would be super strong.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

From my experience brute forcing passwords, no. It’s smart enough to try character substitutions and it annoys me so much that the FBI recommends this practice.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just see *******************

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Need your credit card number and the 3 digit number at the back of the card to see what i typed.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's okay at best. Better if a passphrase, just random, impersonal words, something like this (~50 bits of entropy):

"virtual raging vineyard clad runner"

Best is a long, completely random string, stored in the password manager that you should be using anyways ~150 bits of entropy):

"hX0hZ1QTWtQo(h[Ta9jH]TmsVIhUTgSE"

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did use a password manager, but issue is i still need password for the password manager so it can't be random lol.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

I just generated a 16 character random password and practiced typing it for a while; eventually it just becomes muscle memory.

[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

I see password and password1

Mfw I’m sittin’ safe all the way down here at password69 😎

[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's with dragon and monkey?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because dragons are cool and monkeys are funny.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Can't argue with that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] who@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm a little surprised not to see "changeme" on this list.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

The default ca cert store password in Java is "changeit"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

1Frog_isDancingOnMyPizzaNow!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I laughed at my phone in public.

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Not using reindeerflotilla, smh

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 6 points 3 days ago

Everybody else uses a first name or birthday combo

[–] ns1@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Strange how much higher the top one, 123456, is than the others, and how the most popular ones with repeating numbers also have 6 digits. Why do people like 6 digits so much more than 5 or 7?

[–] emb@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Because of composition rules. Fewer characters, much easier to brute force guess.

So when a site tells you 'Your password must be at least 6 characters long', and they just want to get past it to get to the content, the number is already on their mind.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

trustevery1

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Pick password Unga. Monkey.

P@ssw0rd no one will ever guess this one!

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Really surprised my old one isn't on there. Dontknow.

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