8 Days of Monkey Mayhem
8 Days to the World Science Fiction Convention.
Just found out that I’ll be accepting my prize for the short story competition at the awards ceremony on the Friday night.
For some reason monkeys seem particularly popular with computer programmers as well. ThinkGeek‘s logo is a monkey
And they offer a Killer Coding Ninja Monkeys t-shirt for sale.
And monkey is one of the most commonly chosen words for computer passwords.
After a security breach, researchers were able to analyse 32 million real passwords chosen by users at a photo-sharing web site.
The twenty most common passwords:
- 123456
- 12345
- 123456789
- Password
- iloveyou
- princess
- rockyou
- 1234567
- 12345678
- abc123
- Nicole
- Daniel
- babygirl
- monkey
- Jessica
- Lovely
- michael
- Ashley
- 654321
- Qwerty
One of the reasons given for why monkey is such a popular password is that many sites require a six-character minimum password and monkey is an easy one to remember.
What proportion of the 32 million users use one of those twenty?
The report on this incident is at
http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf
The top 5000 most commmonly used passwords covered 20% of 32 million people.
Oh, cool, thanks!