Want to create a really strong password? Don???t ask Google

In the leaked 2009 RockYou dataset, 4 people out of 32,603,387 picked ???2bon2btitq??? and 5 picked ???2bon2b.??? The roughly one-in-a-million probability sounds impressive, but it only puts people using these passwords in the 50th and 48th percentiles of security. In other words, Google???s advised password is more common than what half of users choose. There are about 500,000 more common passwords in the RockYou set-enough that ???2bon2btitq??? is unlikely to come up in an online guessing attack but not nearly enough to prevent instant cracking if leaked in hashed form.

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The model of the new media model
Hamish MacEwan
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The model of the new media model – "The companies are still small but they are profitable. Laporte said he has costs of $350,000 a year with seven employees now but revenue of $1.5 million and that revenue is doubling annually. It will increase more as he announces new means of distribution (to the TV; he believes that podcasting is too hard for the audience)."

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Oh god, that was so massively overwhelming. Thanks so much for posting the search, but I feel like I accidentally tapped into the main power line for the internet
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Overwhelming – Pointed here by T O’Reilly.