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The password is “password”

by Alex Schleifer
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PC Magazine’s May issue’s got the top 10 most commonly used passwords online — I wonder how many of the people using the password “password” are just doing so because of login-fatigue. Interestingly, “monkey” is at #6. I wonder how they actually gathered the data for this. Hm.

PC Magazine’s May issue’s got the top 10 most commonly used passwords online — I wonder how many of the people using the password “password” are just doing so because of login-fatigue. Interestingly, “monkey” is at #6. I wonder how they actually gathered the data for this. Hm.

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Alex is CEO of Sideshow , an award winning creative agency. You can read his blog here.

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