Below are the 500 worst passwords. If you see yours, it's probably time to change it. And if you're trying to hack into your friend's Facebook account to post a ridiculous status update, typing 123456 or PASSWORD isn't a bad place to start. The list was put together by Mark Burnett in his 2005 book Perfect Password: Selection, Protection, Authentication. For some reason it's taken five years for it to go viral.
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It's a good thing they have variations of the f word as a noun, an adjective and a verb. obvious choices for passwords.
Funny! When I was a kid, I'll admit I may have used a few of these in variation. Rainbow was definately one I used. I had a pet fish named Rainbow. He always was my favorite.
Does he also say why they suck? There are a lot I get, but definitely some that I still think a bit random.
I could find nowhere where it said why they suck. I would assume they were the most common because of the first few on the list, but I wouldn't expect "dragon" to be one the top passwords.
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