Top 10 Easy Passwords from Movies and TV - Don't use them!
Sunday, January 31st 2010 @ 9:27 AM (not yet rated)
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In this Streetwise Security Edge, we discussed some of the highlights of the Social Media Security Podcast, and various news stories from the week, including the fact that RockYou had a breach that exposed many passwords of social media site users.
This week's Top 10 List (compiled by Jonathan Abolins) focuses on some notable TV and Movie passwords that are probably not the best choices for you to use as passwords, as they are probably now in the password guessing dictionaries of many hackers...
Top Ten Literary, Movie, and TV passwords:
10. Valley Forge (National Treasure)
9. Joshua (War Games)
8.Peek-a-boo (TV - Babylon 5)
7.Z1ON0101 (Matrix Reloaded)
6. zxcvb (Hackers. HINT: look at the keyboard to see the relationship
among these letters.)
5.12345 (Spaceballs where it was a plant's defence system's password
and the planet's leader's luggage lock combo.)
4.Open, Sesame (Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves from One Thousand and One Nights.)
3.Alligator (Scrubs, In one episode, attorney Ted tells two doctors
with him to look away while he enters his password on a computer. Afer
they look away, Ted keys in the password, saying out aloud each
letter. "A-L-L-I-G-A-T-O-R...there... OK, you can look now.")
2. Caput Draconis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
1. Swordfish (Max Brothers' Horse Feathers and various other movies. )
Compiled by Jonathan Abolins
There's a good list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JNighthawk/Page_Archive/List_of_passwords_used_in_fiction
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