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I first learned of the list in VMS because a manager where I was working at the time (1990) wanted to set his password to "ORANGE". 
At a later job, I extracted the four- and five-letter words, cleansed the result, and used them to form pairs to be used as passwords. A precedent had been set to make passwords such as HOUSE$BOAT, and I wanted to automate/randomize it.
As a note to the newbs, passwords in OpenVMS (and other proper operating systems) are not case-sensitive because not all terminals support lower-case.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: As a note to the newbs, passwords in OpenVMS (and other proper operating systems) are not case-sensitive
Did not know. I'm a newb.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: not all terminals support lower-case.
Sounds like an Apple ][ 
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I seem to recall using some Hazeltine terminals that didn’t have lowercase back in the early 80’s in college.
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The (mechanical) teletype terminals I used at school in the 70s only had upper case. The delete character was shifted O and it was a standing joke to say "Oh-shift ;I've mistyped!"
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raddevus wrote: zxcvbn // why are these letters so common?? !!
Because someone thought that, essentially, using qwerty+1 was being smart.
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I'm not very impressed with male_names.txt - it's not even close to complete.
OriginalGriff isn't even in there!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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But, your given name is in there, right?
Mine is.
Also, I was reading down through the list of passwords.txt and I started cracking up.
How are some of these "common"? People need their minds washed out!! 
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Yep, over 3700 female names but less than 1000 male. My (middle-eastern, but pretty common) next-door neighbour's isn't in there, nor the leaders of two countries commonly in the news at the moment, nor the designer of the Eiffel tower, nor even a recent US president.
And as for surnames: neither part of my double-barrelled name is there, nor my wife's maiden name, nor my daughter-in-law's maiden name, nor that same ex-president. Someone at MS isn't trying very hard. But at least the film texts includes both aaaaaaaaah and that other classic, aaaaaaaaaa (and they spelt it correctly!)
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Clearly it's not meant to be a very exhaustive list, which leads me to ask...what is this intended to be used for anyway?
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A very incomplete list indeed.
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There's 30000 entries in mine! 
The sublist that contains the word f**k is pretty extensive.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: There's 30000 entries in mine!
I know. And some of the common (and filthy) ones are shocking. Shocking that many "12yr old boy" minds think of such stupid things.
Do not search thru them with the text "lick"!
Troll....all you guys are doing that now.
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Do I use Microsoft Edge?
No.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I actually use FireFox & Brave and I'm almost as completely agnostic to browsers these days.
I discovered this when i was running on a work win10 VM which requires us to use MS Edge.
I'm basically agnostic to OSes too, since I run Ubuntu 22.04 desktop to connect to work VMs (win10) and I KVM switch to my MacOS Mac Mini M1. 
modified 21-Feb-23 17:23pm.
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I think most of use whatever we got used to, I have used Brave (on my Debian system) and sometimes Vivaldi. I lied somewhat, I have to use Edge when I connect (VPN) to the client;s systems, that is what they have. Herself uses Safari on her MBP. Not aware that it is a browser, it is gmail.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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For some reason I have to, to view MS documentation on my desktop - the site doesn't work in Chrome (but it works fine on my Surface). Probably a config issue, but gawd knows where ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I remember reading that 123456 is the most common password found in pwned databases. So I suspect that passwords.txt is the top 30,000 in order at the time it was created!
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oh no, passwords has mine: geekboy 😥
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I saw geekboy in the passwords file too.
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What is scary is that these are plain text files. Not even a simple attempt to obfuscate them. If my PC is confiscated and the Police search it for naughty words, they will find them in that directory.
What is a relief is that none of my passwords are in the list.
Sadly, I'm more common than I thought. Both my forenames are in the top 100 male names and my surname just misses out of its top 100 list.
How soon will it be before these name lists are used as the dictionaries for a bad version of Wordle?
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Thanks for posting that. I was curious about where it came from. 
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Nothing particularly secret there. Just one google search away: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
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I only use Edge on one website. For some reason I can't sign into the website without using Edge, both Vivaldi and Firefox don't work on that particular site.
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sasadler wrote: I only use Edge on one website.
I have a healthcare site that will not work on FireFox.
When I attempt to login, it tells me that the ID doesn't exist.
But that isn't true, of course. It's very odd that it tells me a totally incorrect error and doesn't just fail some other way.
I use Brave (chrome-based) and then the site works perfectly fine.
Edge is chrome-based also.
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