- You just don’t care because the account does not contain sensitive data and you are not using your real name anyway.
- Typing in strong passwords with a combination of special characters and regular characters takes ages on smart phones and tablets.
- Computers can’t be trusted anyway, so why bother with a complicated password?
- Nobody is interested in you anyway.
- Password is for a shared account. Explaining to someone the password “%&__!(E2-<“+?=-:*d3//#@” over the phone is just too nerve wrecking.
- You want to have access to the account in case of an emergency, and you are afraid to forget the password if it is too complicated.
- “12345” can not be so bad if everyone else is using it as a password.
- After using strong passwords for years, your wifi was hacked by a 13 year old neighbor kid who got bored playing World of Warcraft on a Saturday evening.
- When creating an account you first choose a password easy to remember, only to change it later to a much more secure password. Never happens.
- The real password is your username.
- You are a math genius: If “12345” is so highly likely to be guessed, why do these numbers never get picked by the national lottery?
- Two words: Quantum computers
- Passwords are for pussies: Secret information is hidden in porn movies using steganography.
- You are a celebrity who wants to get into the headlines.
- You want to become a celebrity and therefore use every way to get into the headlines.
- Wife wants to set a trap for her husband to see if he is spying on her. Chooses a weak password and checks login times regularly.
- What was the question? Passwords? … yeah … do you know where my skateboard is?
- You know that “12345” is not secure, but at least it’s more secure than “1234”.
- The account is only a temporary account. You use it once and then forget about it.
- The account was automatically created by a script.