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Old 12-03-2009, 06:30 PM
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Default password, 123456, #!comment:, changeme and Fuckyou

What do these words have in common?

They are the top 5 words used in brute force attempts at guessing passwords, from Microsoft via El Reg.

I've personally seen #1 and #2 on computers we use at the company where I work. We change them whenever we run across one, but who the hell knows how many computers are still on our network with weak local amin passwords.
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