... and why wasn't it popular at LinkedIn? Studies of databases cracked from various sites over the years have consistently shown the word "password" to be prominent among the world's most common passwords, usually in the number 1 spot. Yet in the recently lifted LinkedIn database the most common password appears to have been "link",… Continue reading Why is “password” such a popular password…
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The other Internet
Facebook aims to go public— So far I've mostly thought of Facebook as the other Internet. It's an Internet that contains all the stuff I don't really want to know. A site with the handy property that almost everything on it requires you to log in to see it, meaning that I never see any… Continue reading The other Internet