The best leaked LinkedIn passwords

[pokerfan]

Bigpenis, and 6.5 Million Other Sad, Stupid Leaked LinkedIn Passwords

bigtits
squirter
hireme
shitabrick
fuckgoogle
fucksony
fuckmicrosoft
methmouth
bukkake
fatass
fuckmylife
milfhunter
iminhell
dipshit
fireme

http://gizmodo.com/5916332/bigpenis-and-65-million-other-sad-stupid-leaked-linkedin-passwords

[drm604]

1. At work, I assign random strings of letters and numbers to our users for their email accounts.

Once or twice a month a get a call from someone who wants me to change it to their middle name or their kid's name or something equally stupid.

I ask them if they can at least throw in some numbers and uppercase letters, so what do they do? They capitalize the first letter and add something like "123" to the end.

[pokerfan]

2. password strength

Analysis and the paper that inspired it: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/angela2.pdf

[Ron Obvious]

4. Even Compuserve knew this way back when...

Even back in the '80s, Compuserve used to assign passwords made up of two random common words, separated by a random punctuation symbol.

I still remember the password "enema-cowboy" to this day because of the arresting image it conjured up.

[drm604]

6. One strength we have is that they get locked out after 5 tries and have to contact me to unlock them

[surrealAmerican]

3. So many sad, poignant passwords ...

... it's like poetry: "hireme", "fuckmylife", "iminhell"? There's a heartbreaking back story to those, I bet.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Lots of people (like me) only learn of LinkedIn when they lose a job

But I like a more positive password, like "gonefishing".

Anyway, the link in the OP indicated that my password was stolen, so I changed it. Now it's "takingawalk". Nobody'll guess it.

[HeiressofBickworth]

5. Where I last worked

we had to change our passwords every three months. I hated it because I would forget the next day. So, I kept a list at my desk of the words I had used. Having the list right there defeats the purpose of having an absolute secure password. But hey, I'm retired now and don't have to think about it any more. Yea!

[HopeHoops]

8. 123456 is my favorite.

When I pay the gas bill online, that is ALWAYS the confirmation code. I'm not kidding. It's been like that for years.