People are changing their passwords

It looks like the warnings about passwords are being heard by users everywhere. For years, industry experts have been telling people not to use simple passwords, and not to use the same passwords everywhere. Now, research shows that the previous most-used password, “password” is no longer #1.

Unfortunately, the new #1 password is “123456”. Which was previously #2. It’s difficult to categorize this as progress, since both of those passwords are equally terrible. Don’t use them. Please.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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