25 Worst Internet Passwords

FOX News ^ | 11/20/11

[crosshairs]

Here’s the password I use for everything. It’s a pain in the ass to remember, though:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983797804995105973173281609631859502445945534690830264252230825334468503526193118817101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730359825349042875546873115956286388235787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104

Naw. It's easy as pi.

[killermosquito]

I logged into my gmail account a few weeks ago and gmail pops up a web page showing that my account had been opened in two different countries in the last 30 days. I freaked...and changed my password.

[MrEdd]

Bigelow 6-200

Okay, I’m old.

[redheadtoo]

iamadumass

I believe the spelling should be iamadumbass. You left out the 'b' in dumb.

[Chode]

thank you...

[packrat35]

That’s the same thing I noticed. You make it too hard and they just write it down and tape it under the keyboard or in a notebook in the top drawer of their desk.

[GOPJ]

Good advice - thanks.

[packrat35]

I used that one already at work this year.

[tang-soo]

King Roland: One, two, three, four, five!

Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

[Revolting cat!]

And then the company demanded that you install some security software on your home ‘puter if you wanted remote access. Configuration of this software was password protected, with only the security group guys knowing it. I had to fix it one time, and needed the password, and the security dude gave it to me: the company name with the letter ‘S’ in it replaced by a ‘5’.

[NoCmpromiz]

101010

They are only partially binary compliant?

[Right Wing Assault]

BR549 worked great 30 years ago.

[skinkinthegrass]

It’s a pain in the ass to remember, though:
3.14159265358979323846...028989152104

Ahhh....the short version, eh?.....
www.www.angio.net/pi/piquery

[Ronin]

I change it often, but not every 30 days. And only for the important sites like email, etc.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Some from Obama staffers:
Taketheirmoney; Chewasright; Luv$ocialism; Romneyoneofus;

[Ronin]

Under their keyboard? Hey, I’ve seen them on sticky notes attached to monitors.

Yeesh!

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[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

That’s as easy as pie.

[zeugma]

That xkcd cartoon is one of my favourites. It boils the entire issue down to its essentials. The password I use to protect all my other passwords (I use keepassX) would not satisfy the security guidelines I have to deal with at work but it is many orders of magnitude better than passwords they accept because I don't use the 'shift key'. It's a long meaningless phrase that I came up with many years ago that couldn't be derived from any source other than my own twisted brain. After typing it a few hundred times I can rap it out in seconds.

Rather than have convoluted policies and frequent changes, it would be better to just have your security team running a constant 'crack' against their password hashes. If yours is successfully decrypted, you're told to choose another and do better this time.

[zeugma]

I have the password to my wifi network set as a 128 digit hexadecimal number - no one’s getting on for free.

A good way to generate passwords for a wifi network is to use the sha256 hash from an easily reproducable file.

$ echo "this is my pass" > mypass
$ sha256sum mypass
857571d81ecdbb959b686bb167bb2b49ff0aecf0c379d1da84df6b8eac254090  mypass

Or you could just echo a phrase you can remember through sha256sum

echo "this is my password" | sha256sum
90d47cbbb1372717ab2bd56b94389665d58900bee14dc8199ea6a239b24a702b  -

This way you don't have to ever write anything down, yet you have a key you can reproduce at will.

Anyone trying to hack your wifi is going to have to do a brute force attack against the entire address space because your key doesn't decrypt to an actual typable password.