I always like Brian Kernighan's password "/.,/.," [1]. If you're going for a stu... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		shmuppet on May 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most common PIN codes (2012) I always like Brian Kernighan's password "/.,/.," [1]. If you're going for a stupid password anyway might as well make is easy to type. "password" is not particularly nice to type; I wonder why "asdf" is not generally more popular. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/forum...

qingcharles on May 15, 2024 [–]

asdf and qwerty were up there in the top 10 I think. This was just prior to the days of SQL injection and I'm 100% sure you could have erased our entire production DB with a really "strong" password.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact