Top 10 ways to make your private stuff public!

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I absolutely love this little tidbit of information that I picked up on the radio coming into work this morning!

It's a list of the ten worst passwords you can have.  Basically, it's probably the first ten things a hacker will try in an effort to break into whatever account he or she is trying to penetrate.  So here are the top 10!

password
123456
qwerty
abc123
letmein
monkey
myspace1
password1
blink182
(your first name)

I am absolutely thrilled to say that I have never used any of the above, though I admit using my share of lame ones in the past.

Do you have any you'd like to add to this list of the bad?

By the way, you can go here if you'd like a rating on just how strong your passwords are.  (Or is Microsoft just trying to steal your passwords?  Hmmm.  This last thought only for the paranoid.)