It’s No Longer a Secret That America’s Most Popular Password Is “Secret”, According to a New Report

[Peter_Brosdahl]

NordPass has released its 6th edition report of the most commonly used passwords and while worldwide things are not looking good it's somewhat humorous what many in the U.S. have chosen to settle upon as their No. 1 go-to.

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[Zarathustra]

I certainly hope these are only temporary passwords people are supposed to change on first login.

Otherwise my countrymen on average are idiots.

 

[Brian_B]

I think this shows progress. It was “password” for decades

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Yep, all the usual ones are on the list so my guess is at some point, secret got mentioned on social media or something and then spread after that.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

As bad as this is I'm curious to know what folks are putting for their security questions because I'm sure there are similar instances of things they shouldn't be using. If folks can't come up with a unique password what are they going to do for anything more involved?

 

[Denpepe]

this reminds me of some guy who made a joke stating he had trouble remembering his password so he uses incorrect as his password so when he put in the wrong one the pc said your password is incorrect

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

yep, there's a meme of Joey from Friends for that. Pretty sure I posted it in the funniest pic section about a year or so ago.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

 

[Burticus]

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