<story><title>Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Huh. Of all my old blog posts, this is the last one I expected to randomly resurface at the top of Hacker News.&lt;p&gt;There were a lot of other articles made using this 10M Password dataset at the time it was originally released, which the dataset author aggregated into a subreddit (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;10millionpasswords&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;10millionpasswords&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). WPEngine, for example, has a much more comprehensive writeup with ad-hoc looks at specific passwords (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wpengine.com&amp;#x2F;unmasked&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wpengine.com&amp;#x2F;unmasked&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/password-numbers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markild</author><text>Looks like a few of the patterns in his analysis has a tendency towards Benford&amp;#x27;s Law[1]&lt;p&gt;[1]:&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Benford%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Benford%27s_law&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>