123456 holds onto 1st place as most used password

It's always fun to see the list of most common passwords gleaned from published lists of purloined passwords. The most recent top 25 can be found at teamsid.com.

The top two maintained their positions on the list: "123456" and "password." And here's a new one on the list at #24: "passw0rd." Get it? Very clever. They used a zero instead of an o. The program probably required at least one number or character other than letters. Problem solved!

Of course, most of the stuff we have to seal with a password isn't worth stealing anyway. But it's like locking a car door. There may be nothing in there, but the idea of a thief browsing around in our personal space can be disturbing -- even more so knowing they can change the lock.

Via Washingtonpost.com which contained an easily copied HTML list of those 25, to wit:

1) 123456
2) password
3) 12345678
4) qwerty
5) 12345
6) 123456789
7) football
8) 1234
9) 1234567
10) baseball
11) welcome
12) 1234567890
13) abc123
14) 111111
15) 1qaz2wsx
16) dragon
17) master
18) monkey
19) letmein
20) login
21) princess
22) qwertyuiop
23) solo
24) passw0rd (using zero)
25) starwars

I had to look up letmein. Sounded foreign. Nope. Let me in. Doh!