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I cross-referenced the leaked hashes against hashes of the 10,000 most common passwords and found that 93% of the passwords at least 6 characters long appear in the leak.

http://www.johnvey.com/blog/2012/06/93-of-top-passwords-appe...

It's always surprising that people are so lackadaisical about their passwords. I've had people tell me their passwords in casual conversation multiple times, just for the sake of discussion.



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