Password Analysis
Offensichtlich wurde die Website phpbb.com vor einiger Zeit gehackt und eine Liste der Passwörter veröffentlicht.
Robert Graham hat sich die Liste etwas genauer angesehen:
It’s hard to judge exactly how many passwords are dictionary words. A lot of words, like “xbox” or “pokemon,” are clearly words, but aren’t in an English dictionary. I ran the phpbb passwords through various dictionary files and come up with a 65% match (for a simple English dictionary) and 94% (for “hacker” dictionaries). The dictionary words were overwhelmingly simple ones, like “apple” or “orange,” rather than complex words like “pomegranate.”
via Bruce Schneier