Comments on: Don’t tell us your password: the top ten

By: xanderjones

xanderjones — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:26:23 +0000

@Miss Cellania:

LOLOLOLOLOL

By: Susan R

Susan R — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:13:08 +0000

I usually use an acronym made up of a band/artist’s name and a song title or lyric and add a number or symbol if necessary… For instance – Elvis Costello/What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding becomes: ECwsfapl&u .. these seem to pass all of the “complex password” rules…

By: Jon B.

Jon B. — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:25:12 +0000

Good one, Emilee. That’s how I spell my daughter’s name too!

One way to a safe(r) password system is to use a rule to generate passwords for yourself. Here is the link from Lifehacker. Some good ideas in the comments too.

http://lifehacker.com/#!184773/geek-to-live–choose-and-remember-great-passwords

By: Juan Grande

Juan Grande — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:12:57 +0000

the password is ‘swordfish’ (according to Groucho Marx)

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:38:19 +0000

Back in the day when AOL used to send out those diskettes (and later the CD-ROMS), the passwords they used were two words that were completely unrelated to each other (like FLOUR-PILLOW; NANNY-WHEEL; or some such as that). Seems to me something like that would still work.

And when you consider that the OED lists something like 220K words in the English language alone — and there’s no reason that you could not use words outside the English language as well — then factor in the numbers you could toss in should the site you’re accessing require an alpha-numeric password, I think even the CIA would have a hard time figuring out what you’re using.

-”BB”-

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:25:35 +0000

Work requires 16-character passwords, minimum of 2-uppercase, 2-lowercase, 2 numbers, and 2 symbols. You can’t repeat any of the previous 24 passwords, each new password must change by 3 characters, and they are only valid for 60 days.

I have 3 accounts per device (system admin, my admin, my user) on over 120 devices, no Active Directory, RADIUS, or the like. I hate my life.

By: Emilee

Emilee — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:11:26 +0000

124356? Amazing! that’s the combonation for my luggage!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:47:33 +0000

One of the most sucessful way of creating paswords is to pick a random word from a different language, misspell it, and shove two numbers in somewhere. Hasn’t failed me yet :)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:51:58 +0000

I’m one of those naughty ones that have used almost the same type of password for years. Granted, it’s a mix of my friends names back when I was in high school, but still. I’ll change one or two things with it once or twice a year, more if I’m signing up for something big. It’s not like I have much to protect anyway, since I’m in college.

My ex boyfriend (the first one) is worse. He told me his password years ago, and he hasn’t modified it at all. I could type it here right now and everyone could get into his email, myspace, bank info, etc. I won’t, though, because I’m not that vindictive. The only one of his that’s different is the one for his yahoo account and that’s because, when he signed up for yahoo, it made the password for you. Amazingly, with his lack of creativity usually, he always remembers it.

By: cj

cj — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:27:20 +0000

One of the passwords I used for a bunch of stupid sites back in high school is on that list. I know there was a phase I went through where I just wanted to see how many email accounts one person could have. It made me wonder how much of it was my fault that the word showed up?

Last night I couldn’t even view my cable bill because I don’t know the password any more . . .