The 25 most popular (i.e. worst) passwords of 2012

[RICHARD]

Somewhere in the ether, Allen Luden is crying, laughing and scratching his head?

[kaycountrygal]

My Goodness! Are you kidding me? I'm shaking my head re those passwords. I'm pleased to say my password(s) are not on that list. I do what was suggested in that I have a different password for different sites. No, I cant remember all of them and have them written in a notebook. I do NOT have them listed on my computer.

[pomtzu]

OMG - I can't believe that of some supposedly reasonably intelligent individuals.

All of mine are so complicated, that when I changed them all, I couldn't even remember them at first. I don't have any of mine in a password manager either - too darn risky IMO.

[Catty1]

If you use Mozilla Firefox at all please know that it saves your passwords. This can be handy, but also hazardous.

However, you can put a Master Password on the whole lot! Then you just have to remember one PW.

Click on Tools - Options, then click on the Security tab. You can uncheck "Remember passwords for sites" or check "Use a master password".

To see your passwords click on "Saved Passwords" and then click "Show Passwords".

Got that? There's a test tomorrow....

[Taz_Zoee]

I have various passwords I use often with variations to them. Some of the less frequented and sites that aren't dangerous to me if someone hacked into it passwords I do have written down at home. NOT my bank password though. At work a couple of the sites I frequent require me to change my password every so often. I HAVE to write these down because I'd never remember them.
I can't believe the number one is "password".

[Jessika]

I tend to use one base password for everything... my email is the only one that is significantly different from anything else. For everything else I use a variation of the same one for everything... it is very hard to remember a different password for every log in you ever make, especially if they tell you not to write it down. Well I HAVE to write some down, or I'd never remember them!! lol

But, wow, to be dumb (yes: DUMB) enough to use 'password' as the password... you kind of deserve to have your account hacked (and is it truly even being hacked if you made it that easy??).