[brs]

For what it's worth, my password was 8 random alphanumerics, and it's not in the list, while /.,mnbvcxz (12 alphanumerics with symbols) is there. The cracker must have some sort of algorithm that looks for consecutive patterns on the keyboard.

It goes to show that the old rules - non-dictionary word, mixed case, etc - really don't cut it anymore. Psychologically, picking a password that has high entropy is quite difficult, and the crackers are only going to develop better algorithms in the future. I think using a good random generator is the only way to ensure you have a decent password these days.

[devinlane]

I dunno, they managed to crack "G7io5639*%V64ioT5h9" -- 19 characters including lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols. It doesn't seem to follow any pattern on a QWERTY layout -- maybe another layout?

I wasn't aware they could crack passwords that long though -- wasn't that supposed to take years, even with a GPU?