“I think ‘adgjmptw’ is just one of many examples—and an especially nice one, given the novelty of how it’s chosen—of how we are, for the most part, predictably unimaginative when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups,” a WP Engine spokesman tells Quartz. “We love shortcuts. And so do password crackers.” .... http://qz.com
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
A password like “adgjmptw” is nearly as bad as “123456”
The last pattern—adgjmptw—stumped the analysts until they thought of another keypad: that of old-fashioned phones, where the number two correlates with the letters A, B, and C; 3 with D, E, and F; and so on. To type “adgjmptw” on an old cell phone, one essentially dials “23456789.”
“I think ‘adgjmptw’ is just one of many examples—and an especially nice one, given the novelty of how it’s chosen—of how we are, for the most part, predictably unimaginative when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups,” a WP Engine spokesman tells Quartz. “We love shortcuts. And so do password crackers.” .... http://qz.com
“I think ‘adgjmptw’ is just one of many examples—and an especially nice one, given the novelty of how it’s chosen—of how we are, for the most part, predictably unimaginative when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups,” a WP Engine spokesman tells Quartz. “We love shortcuts. And so do password crackers.” .... http://qz.com
