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by dfan 5468 days ago
As far as I can tell, "Most common iPhone passcodes" doesn't belong on this list, and I'm perplexed why it seems to follow the law. An iPhone numeric password (which I'm assuming it's referring to) is simply a 4-digit string, so all first digits should be equally probable, unless there's some psychological issue at work. Or are they discarding leading zeros for the purpose of this chart? I guess they must be (0 doesn't appear on the chart), but that's a weird thing to do to a password.
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My guess is that people will be tending to pick "meaningful" numbers.
Passwords follow the law, too! Skewed of course by the preponderance of '123456'.
4 digit years make 'great' 4 digit passwords.