Top 25 Passwords of 2012

[OwlHoot]

Many years ago, I was converting a database to encrypted password. Before I did I ran a count and sorted by popularity.

IIRC, password was the most popular, but charlie featured highly which was a bit odd. Then various premiership football teams.

Could that be something to do with Charlie Chang (as in "Chan"ging ones password)?

I'd be the first to agree it sounds a bit tenuous; but who knows what goes through these people's heads?

[speling bee]

What makes me laugh is the tens of thousands of sad fuqwits who buy lottery tickets with "predictable" sets such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Those numbers are no more or less likely to come up than any wrandom set; but the very fact that so many people choose the same sets means their individual winnings would be derisory even if they did win.

It's people like that who blame bankers for today's financial crisis, and unfortunately they actually have the vote.

If I stand for election I will change my surname to Aardvark first.

[Mrs sasguru]

His wife?

No - mines far worse than that

[jmo21]

Last contract I was at, the permies took some solace in giving people stupid passwords.

I once got:
comeandhaveagoifyouthinkyourehardenough

[EternalOptimist]

Could that be something to do with Charlie Chang (as in "Chan"ging ones password)?

I'd be the first to agree it sounds a bit tenuous; but who knows what goes through these people's heads?

Was Charlie a dreamboat ?

In Barlloyds c2000
in an access database, I was amused to find that half the birds had the male dreamboats name as the pw
and half the blokes had the office vixen as theirs

[EMEAfixer]

Many years ago, when I was managing a team of junior Devs, I once needed to phone one of the lads to ask for his password so that I could access some code he had forgotten to check in before leaving.

With great embarrassment he told me it was: efmbbbsbm

Emea Fixer My Big Bad Boss Sits Beside Me


For about a month afterwards, the poor chap blushed every time I spoke to him.

[EternalOptimist]

Many years ago, when I was managing a team of junior Devs, I once needed to phone one of the lads to ask for his password so that I could access some code he had forgotten to check in before leaving.

With great embarrassment he told me it was: efmbbbsbm

Emea Fixer My Big Bad Boss Sits Beside Me


For about a month afterwards, the poor chap blushed every time I spoke to him.

heh heh

[BrilloPad]

half the birds had the male dreamboats name as the pw

EternalOptimist ?