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> password that's just "password1234"

it's even worse than that. The world's most common password is... password.



I'm not sure about that. According to The Plague, the four most common passwords were God, love, sex and secret.


Wiki says that some companies agree[1] that "123456" and "qwerty" are the most popular. "password" seems to generally be in the top 10.

What's interesting on these lists is the presence of Dragon and Monkey - am I mistaken or is it due to CJK users entering a Chinese character that got translated somehow? Wouldn't that mean some of the most popular passwords out there are single unicode characters? Surely not...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_passwo...




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