Mark Burnett says he’s been collecting passwords since 1998. He talks about how he does it, here. After you read it, you should get a program like 1passowrd, ASAP.
After 12+ years of collecting passwords, I have found a few interesting facts:
- Although my list contains about 6 million username/password combos, the list only contains about 1,300,000 unique passwords.
- Of those, approximately 300,000 of those passwords are used by more than one person; about 1,000,000 only appear once (and a good portion of those are obviously generated by a computer).
- The list of the top 20 passwords rarely changes and 1 out of every 50 people uses one of these passwords.
