The 25 hottest Passwords Of 2015, Or, people Suck
A definitive listing of our idiocy.
January 19, 2016
Human beings comprehensive some beautiful fantastic issues in 2015. We landed a reusable rocket. We legalized love (as if love wanted our permission to start with). We flew by way of Pluto and despatched back excessive-res images from more than three billion miles away. For all intents and purposes, we rocked 2015.
but not so quick. Abandon the warm feeling of satisfaction to your abdomen and delete no matter self-congratulatory tweet chances are you’ll’ve been crafting to take however one second to skim 2015’s list of most popular passwords. you’re going to set free a sigh, really feel your self deflate, and by the point you attain the record’s finish, you’ll have come to the inescapable conclusion that humanity, for all its strides and glimmers of growth, is filled with morons.
after all, the highest password of 2015 was once “123456.” Come on. and folks marvel how the Ashley Madison hack took place.
the remainder of the listing—compiled via SplashData from more than 2 million leaked passwords all the way through the yr—reads as extra of a what not to do in password-making, quite than an exact record of bad decisions made with the aid of exact human beings:
- 123456 (Unchanged)
- password (Unchanged)
- 12345678 (Up 1)
- qwerty (Up 1)
- 12345 (Down 2)
- 123456789 (Unchanged)
- football (Up three)
- 1234 (Down 1)
- 1234567 (Up 2)
- baseball (Down 2)
- welcome (New)
- 1234567890 (New)
- abc123 (Up 1)
- 111111 (Up 1)
- 1qaz2wsx (New)
- dragon (Down 7)
- grasp (Up 2)
- monkey (Down 6)
- letmein (Down 6)
- login (New)
- princess (New)
- qwertyuiop (New)
- solo (New)
- passw0rd (New)
- starwars (New)
Momentarily forgetting the so-absurd-it’s-virtually-offensive stupidity of this record, it’s fascinating to note that humans at least tried some creativity this yr, if handiest to make room for decidedly trickier passwords corresponding to “1234567890” and “passw0rd.”
Oh, and it was nice to peer “solo” and “starwars” up there. Indie movies like that hardly get their due.
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