Named the most popular passwords on the smartphones of Russians. Every tenth person has the same

Specialists of the Institute of Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies of RTU MIREA called the most popular passwords on Russian smartphones. As it turned out, the majority chooses simple combinations.

So, every tenth user uses "1234". Following are even simpler options - "1111" and "0000". In fourth place is "1212".

Top 10 looks like this:

1. «1234».
2. «1111».
3. «0000».
4. «1212».
5. «7777».
6. «1004».
7. «2000».
8. «4444».
9. «2222».
10. «6969».

At the same time, four-digit codes are not safe in themselves. Picking up such a cipher is quite easy - such combinations give only 10 thousand possible options. For comparison: with six-digit passwords, this figure increases to a million.

However, a graphic password (when you need to connect several points with lines) is even worse. It can be easily peeped, and the human brain remembers the picture better than the numbers, the researchers explained.

The experiment of RTU MIREA showed that from a distance of one and a half meters, a third of the control group of students was able to remember and reproduce the graphic key entered on the screen. The digital code was thus able to "hack" only every tenth participant in the test.