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Dilbert, Regarding Password Policies
How Secure is Your Password?
You can type in a password and find out how long it would take for a hacker to crack it.
Note: Don’t type in your current passwords, please. Seriously, be smart out there.
Top Worst Passwords
Here’s the article: http://xato.net/passwords/more-top-worst-passwords
Tidbits:
I have decided to release the following list of the top 10,000 most common passwords. This list is ranked by counting how many different usernames appear on my list with the same password. Note that capitalization is not taken into consideration when matching passwords so this list has been converted to all lowercase letters. What is interesting here is that in my current sample data, this list of the 10,000 most common passwords represents 99.8% of all user passwords.
Top 500 Passwords Cloud
It is important to point out that although the top 10,000 passwords are used by 98.8% of all users, there are 2,342,603 (that’s 99.6%) unique passwords remaining that are in use by only .18% of users!
Password Strength
Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess:
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