Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were alphanumeric. More interestingly, when Wired compared the password difficulty of MySpace passwords, to those of corporate research from November, they can conclude that MySpace passwords are better than the Corporate passwords.
Considering the fact the MySpace users are generally younger, this does show a positive trend, and is especially promising for “Nancy19″ your future leader.
I especially liked this quote from the article: ‘We used to quip that “password” is the most common password. Now it’s “password1.” Who said users haven’t learned anything about security?’ -Bruce Schneier, Wired.
[...] regards to an earlier post of mine I thought I should mention it. In December I briefly wrote about MySpace Passwords Beating Corporate Passwords. Bookmark this post: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]