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Wiki says that some companies agree[1] that "123456" and "qwerty" are the most popular. "password" seems to generally be in the top 10.

What's interesting on these lists is the presence of Dragon and Monkey - am I mistaken or is it due to CJK users entering a Chinese character that got translated somehow? Wouldn't that mean some of the most popular passwords out there are single unicode characters? Surely not...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_passwo...



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