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Is your password 123456?
The New York Times published a great article by ASHLEE VANCE on January 2010, entitled "If your password is 123456 just make it Hackme", which is worth bringing to your attentoin a year later!
She reports that “back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345, today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.”   Internet users still have simple passwords, despite all the hackers. 
“I guess it’s just a genetic flaw in humans,” said Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, which makes software for blocking hackers. “We’ve been following the same patterns since the 1990s.” 
In December 2010, a hacker stole 32 million passwords from RockYou, a software company for users of social networks like Facebook and Myspace.  Shulman’s  company was able to examine those  32 million passwords, since the list of passwords was shown on the Web for a short time.  Schulman found that 20% of people on the list used the relatively small amount of 5,000 passwords:  1% of the 32 million people used “123456” as a password. The second-most-popular password was “12345.” Others in the top 20 included “qwerty,” “abc123” and “princess.”
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