25 Worst Passwords of 2011 [STUDY]

My Socialphy password is password12345

Hahaha

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unless you’re hoping to be an easy target for hackers, it’s the worst password you can possibly choose

True story!

I must be really mad to put: password, as your password, really, I've never do that hahahaha
Thanks for sharing

mine is so hard it took me month to finally remember it

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6. monkey

random! good tipss!

I always mix letters and numbers.. never had a problem!! good tips!!

i know you're not supposed to use the same one over and over but it's hard to remember them all... yet i try

my password is ******** it's easy to figure out

A really good password is that one that is easy to remember but hard to guess. You can use the entropy formula:

PS = L*log_2(n)

Where
PS is the entropy of the password
L is the length of the password
n is the pool size of the password, and that is 28 alphabet letters

So , many webpages told you that you must have a password with Upper Case, numbers and overall weird passwords , and that's it a hard to remember password but not so secure password like:

"js3UUjs98"

Using the formula we get:

PS = 9*Log(28)
PS = 43.2 bits


That's a not so secure 43 bits password

But! if you have a password like

"This is my wonderland creepy password"


Is in fact a lot easier to remember but harder to guess:

PS = 37 * log_2(28+1)
PS = 179.74 Bits

As you can see, this is a 179.74 bits password that is almost impossible to guess. I used 28 plus the space character.

Sadly , some webpages force you to use the weird "Wu3u48wsSI8*#2" password format, maybe because their lack of knowledge on basic information theory.

Mine is not that hard (not easy either), but these guys with these passwords are just

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1: password