<story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It&amp;#x27;s hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same thing.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&amp;#x2F;Passwords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&amp;#x2F;Passwords&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawnz</author><text>Is your password &amp;quot;fckgw rhqq2&amp;quot;?</text></comment>
<story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>Related story: For some weird reason, I memorized the serial key for a very popular software (I must be fifteen then). Even today, I can recite the 25-letter key without a hitch. And I have used its first ten letters as a password to one of my accounts. Guess what? The password has been used 4000+ times before [1]. It&amp;#x27;s hard to digest the fact that there are at least a thousand people in the world who did the same thing.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&amp;#x2F;Passwords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&amp;#x2F;Passwords&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morganvachon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done the same, though I never used it as a password. Back around 2000 or so I was experimenting a lot with hardware configurations and I had input my Windows 98 SE key so many times during reinstalls I ended up memorizing it unintentionally. Even today, nearly 20 years later, I can recall it perfectly. It actually came in handy a couple of years ago when I built a P-III retro gaming machine out of scavenged parts; I found a Windows 98 CD at work collecting dust on a shelf, installed it, and instinctively entered the correct key without missing a character.</text></comment>