Can't you people be more password creative?

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    Can't you people be more password creative?


    It’s that time of the year again when we get to see whether people are using the same weak passwords. Here are the top 200 most common passwords according to the 2021 research. The list details how many times a certain password was used and how long it would take to crack it. Explore it now.

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    For the top 200 passwords read article from NordPass here: Top 200 Most Common Password List 2021 | NordPass
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    It is interesting that the VAST MAJORITY are either ALL Numbers or ALL Letters, with VERY VERY few having a Mixture of the two. More astoundingly, the use of Special Characters are virtually NON-Existant.
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    What's interesting is the count column.
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    All my passwords are: Cliff S MaloK Paul Black

    Impossible to crack!
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    Ghot said:
    All my passwords are: Cliff S MaloK Paul Black

    Impossible to crack!
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    Ghot said:
    All my passwords are: Cliff S MaloK Paul Black

    Impossible to crack!
    Don't forget to add the numbers from your phone and SSN#
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    We do passwords the wrong way. They will always be crackable.

    We need a different way to do passwords. Something like each character in a password would connect to a remote programette, that fought back against crackers. Something that would beat up on a brute force program.
    And each character in a password would hook to a different program.
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    Just use 2FA, and a cracked or scrapped password is useless
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    Cliff S said:
    Just use 2FA, and a cracked or scrapped password is useless


    Honestly, 2FA is just pre-useless.
    What we need is a way to make each character in a password... variable, and able to... fight back.
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