What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time." – Henry Ford

Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users — and secured sites — make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story in itself. It's secret data worth knowing, especially if your password is 123456 ...

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