The "P" Word? You Know, Privacy & Psecurity.

From Wired and the dept-of-deja-vu-dept: A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456? was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times.

Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to z”; only 6 percent mixed alpha-numeric and other characters.

That’s right, only 6% used mixed alpha-numerics, and this isn’t the first time that it’s been documented just how dunderheaded some people can be when it comes to doing the Right Thing™.

Great Zeus on high, how hard can it be to come up with a decent password? Not too hard, I dare say…