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Default ; TOT; Piggin passwords

On 10/02/2016 00:30, T i m wrote:

Oh, and they even contacted me because 'Some of the passwords would be
easy to guess' ... like L10nKing$ Like why? The owner of that account
wasn't into Disney, lions, kings or even had kids!


Any password that is on a password list is likely to be easy.
You can download such lists so you can crack poorly implemented sites, etc.

The chances of anyone guessing say two words and a number concatenated
within the three or so tries a secure site should allow are pretty low
without needing any specials.

Now if its a password for say a document, where they can take as long as
they like to crack it, its a different matter.