Funny Story
Forwarded to me in an email, and worth sharing. Full story is on ComputerWorld’s Shark Tank but here’s a synopsis:
Setting up 150 user accounts seemed like a simple enough job to keep a non-technical intern busy. Intern is instructed to create passwords that consist of a word from the dictionary, followed by two or three digits.
Rather than creating passwords like ‘book345’ or ‘house57,’ he instead found a list of the 200 most commonly misspelled words to generate the passwords… As expected, we fielded numerous support calls from users trying to enter passwords such as ‘accommodate85’ and ‘asphyxiate33.’