Who knew e-mail passwords were so revealing? Most people choose words that come readily to mind. From the research from the 1200 anonymous computer user, found most fell into the following four genres. The lesson: don’t use these criteria to create your password.
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Family Oriented
Occasional computer users with strong family ties pick family oriented words like their pet’s name or child’s birth date. While emotional value dictates the choices of this personality, it should be noted that over half chose some variation of their own name.
Fans
People who pick their favorite athletes, musicians, movie stars and cartoon characters want to ally themselves with the lifestyle the celebrity symbolizes. That Homer Simpson topped the charts raises more questions about human nature than it answers.
Fantasists
Self-obsessed and sexually preoccupied, slightly more men than women chose passwords like sexy and stud.
Cryptic
Security-conscious types chose seemingly random series of numbers and letters. Not so interesting, but safe.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Great info
March 27th, 2009 at 6:35 am
DOAH! Homer Simpson!
Fun piece.
Thanks,
Clay
March 27th, 2009 at 6:40 am
interesting information.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Important information! Thanks for sharing and I love the movie 2:)
March 27th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Very informative. Thanks for sharing.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:54 am
thanks
March 27th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Too brief to be informative.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Ha! guess I’m cryptic….should there be more to this article?
March 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
a little more info would have been great.. thanks for sharing..
March 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Interesting and informative, could have been expanded further though. Need to use quotation marks to for ’sexy’ and ’stud.’
March 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Helpful and informative.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Interesting concept.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
THnak you…very original way of communicating this! More information about this would help get this point through to people more effectively
March 27th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
That’s interesting–but I think there needs to be more. For example, why are family-oriented people easier to hack than others? And, more importantly, to whom are they more vulnerable?
For example, there are algorithms that can run on a password and hence crack a “cryptic” password but I am not sure that there is an algorithm a person half a world away can use to crack whether I am married or not. So that information needs to be acquired in a different manner, etc.
Inna
March 28th, 2009 at 4:29 am
nice article! very useful.
March 29th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Looks like i’m in a ‘no-category’ zone.. enjoyed it
March 30th, 2009 at 2:14 am
good review… ill check it out…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Yep, glad to know I don’t fall into a category either. Interesting article!