Jeff Campbell
01-22-2010, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21password.html?partner=rss&emc=rss' target='_blank'>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/t...ner=rss&emc=rss</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was "12345." Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: '123456.'"</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1264114942.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p><em>Image Credit: Dilbert, UFS, Inc.</em></p><p>I had to laugh when I read the list, my first guess was "password" as the most popular but it lost out to 123456, followed by 12345 and 123456789. Incredible. </p>