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by NetworkPerson 862 days ago
I mean… I use 123321 in a number of places for “pointless” accounts that realistically have 0 blowback if ever compromised. In that sense, these short generic passwords being popular makes sense. If I have to take 90 seconds to make a new account for downloading ROM’s, meh.

Now anything else that’s a bit more important gets a unique random password in the realm of 20 - 50 characters based on the service and what they allow (it’s sad how many still exist which force a max of 8 characters or don’t allow symbols).