From Tech Europe:
Since hackers have kindly dumped the passwords of over 1 million of Sony’s subscribers, and Sony stored them in plain text some interesting analysis reveals what people are using for a password.
What do you know? People chose lousy passwords, according to a post by Troy Hunt, a software architect.
One positive is that most passwords are of a reasonably decent length (a longer password is a stronger password) averaging out at around eight characters long.
But when you look at what people use in their passwords, things take a big turn for the worse. Mr. Hunt looked at character types (that is numbers, uppercase, lowercase and non-alphanumeric characters)
Only 4% of passwords had three or more character types. But it’s the spread of character types which is also interesting, particularly when only a single type is used…
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