Passwords
Being a web monkey for a day job, it's amazing two things:-

a) How many people trust you with your passwords. Not just website FTP passwords (which are often necessary & created by us anyway), we're talking Facebook passwords, Paypal passwords (yeah Mr. rhyswynne, here's our business paypal password, take your payment of our account for your dev work).

b) How easy some passwords are to break (we're talking passwords of "admininstrator" or "password"). Despite advising otherwise.

Of course, this goes onto a horrible sense of paranoia that if the interenet collapses, or there's a power cut, or if Google goes under, I'd be out of a job.

It's beyond terrifying.
(rhyswynne - on every social network mullarkey known to man, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 11:49, 4 replies)

If someone's password was "admininstrator".
I would think it would be impossible to guess.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 12:13, closed)

Wouldn't that be a surprisingly good password?
You can write it down and people will read it and type "administrator".
It'll withstand a dictionary attack
It'd probably be a pain to brute force as well!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 13:15, closed)

Except now everyone will know the secret! You fool!

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 13:32, closed)

Curses!
My fat fingers strike again! :(
(rhyswynne - on every social network mullarkey known to man, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 14:41, closed)