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What is your password?

Asked by mowens (8403points) August 21st, 2010

People actually fall for it when someone they don’t even know asks them for their password online. Why in gods name do they fall for this? Is it a lack of intellect or an abundance of trust?

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mammal's avatar

Fernando or derivatives thereof.

DominicX's avatar

It’s in Latin. That’s all I’ll say. You’ll never get it, plus it has numbers and symbols too. :P

ucme's avatar

N*A*I*V*E*T*Y ;¬}

muppetish's avatar

I make my passwords phonetic. It amuses me.

I don’t know why people give their passwords out without hesitation. It could very well be either of the reasons you suggested.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

It’s applesauce

BoBo1946's avatar

youstinklikeapolecat.

mowens's avatar

Read the full question. :)

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

My password is the word persnickety, but you have to yodel it whilst you are simultaneously standing on one leg, holding four lemons in your right hand, arm wrestling a badger with your left, and you must be wearing an orange t-shirt. I you don’t do it right, it won’t work.

Go on, try it.

flutherother's avatar

If I told you I would of course have to kill you.

Austinlad's avatar

My passwords are so long I have to take a bathroom break after I type halfway through them.

flutherother's avatar

I use a password which is so secure it would take the lifespan of the Universe and half as much time again to crack but unfortunately I have forgotten it.

Mephistopheles's avatar

My password is a combination of hieroglyphics, cuneiform, ancient Mayan glyphs and biblical Hebrew so long that an infinite number of monkeys would not be able to crack it given the entire lifespan of the Universe to do so. Also, it’s pretty difficult to input cuneiform into a computer.

Mamradpivo's avatar

password

Except on sites that require a number, in which case it’s password1.

loser's avatar

Okay, this is funny!

RocketSquid's avatar

Apparently it’s because they don’t read the damn question.

Austinlad's avatar

I normally don’t give out my passwords to friends, but I’m more worried about anonymous hackers cracking them online than friends doing in. There—I answered the question.

kenmc's avatar

My passwords are a random series of numbers and letters.

People are idiots, man.

tedibear's avatar

Is it odd that my password for Fluther is slightly stronger than my password for online banking? And I know better than to things like that, yet, there it is.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

@mowens : I notice that you haven’t answered your own question.

:)

My password is a very old phone number of a business lost in the armpit of hell with some random letters thrown in here and there.

mowens's avatar

@everyone I wasnt really asking what peoples passwords were, I was laughing that people actually give out their passwords to random people. I was wondering what would motivate someone to do it!

RocketSquid's avatar

@mowens and it looks like you got your answer.

chyna's avatar

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities Ok, my shirt must be the wrong color of orange because I did it exactly as you said.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

It’s S*E*C*R*E*T But don’t tell anyone. > > > > ......

True story someone I worked with twenty five years ago used that as their password.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Mine is always ‘Hamelin’ but it is in a special language that my older sister made up that she calls ‘Pig Latin’. Trust me…you’ll never break the code.

jazmina88's avatar

I will give my ex job passwords…..
name of business
“01worker”
fruits apple, grape, banana
name of some family

People give then out from naivety, trust, gullibility

ratboy's avatar

”***************.”

daytonamisticrip's avatar

They don’t see why someone would want their account.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

It’s a name of a movie.

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