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Yes, it's nosy to read password files -- but fun!  Did you ever read a
LOT of passwords?  Totally amazing!

If you know the names of the WIVES of every man in your department, you
probably know at least 40% of their passwords.

If you know the name of the hottest TV SHOW on at the time, or the names
of the lead characters therein, you probably know another 10%.  How many
passwords of "BART," "TWIN" or "PEAKS" are at your site??

Everything else is a color name, a team name, DAVE, PETE, or MARK.  :-)

Of course, security-conscious programmer dweebs pick more interesting
passwords.  But scan a big file of Joe User passwords some time!

Since this is true, some sites make a big deal out of forcing users to
select new passwords all the time, not allowing simple words, requiring
numbers and letters mixed, etc.  These are the BEST sites, because the
wonderfully unguessable passwords are then written on Post-It Notes
stuck to everyone's terminals.  :-)

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