It's quite an interesting insight into how peoples minds work when setting a new password: http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt Number 51 is a particular highlight
It's actually refreshing to see "password1" outside the top 10. People are learning, but not quite up to the "correct horse battery staple" level just yet
And we can, using just that small amount of data deduce: Daniel is the most popular boys name and Jessica for girls, respectively.
Most of my passwords are more like sentences than words However, when Adobe kept telling me to sign up to download old versions of acrobat (Many moons ago, before I memorised ftp.adobe.com) it was the logical choice.
People are just as bad with network logins to be honest. We recently had an internal security audit and found that some users got around our password complexity requires with genius entries like "Password00" and "Sunshine1" Needless to say the Head of IT swiftly forced them to change their passwords
I never remember most of my non-essential day to day passwords. If i ever need to visit the site again -> Password Reset thanks. That way if some out of the way site gets hacked, it's never really gonna map back to any logical input of mine
