full-disclosure - Re: Distribution of passwords between man and women

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Message-ID: <2c4d87150909150524x39be1167tbb44ccbe4b0dd06a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:24:39 +0200
From: Anıl Kurmuş <akurmus@...il.com>
To: Tõnu Samuel <tonu@....ee>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Distribution of passwords between man and
	women

99% confidence interval
for men: 1.65 to 1.73% (use lastname as a password, granted)
women : 1.36 to 1.52%

seems like there is a difference, but not very significant  imo :)

Anıl Kurmuş
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 19:02, Tõnu Samuel <tonu@....ee> wrote:
> Hi all kind of bad people in this list.
>
> Want to share weird thing I discovered today: Men have MUCH worse
> passwords than females. There is a user database where men to woman
> ratio is 5.2:1 but men but use last name more often as password. Ratio
> is 6.2:1. When it somes to bad password like "123456", men used it on
> 9.3:1 ratio. More details I put on page:
>
> http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/passwords.html
>
> If you want me run more queries on this DB, mail me in private back and
> publish them too on same page.
>
>  Tõnu
>
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