Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)

A few years ago Steve Gibson talked about &quot;The end of clever&quot; on his podcast. Essentially that we&#x27;ve (now quite awhile ago) passed the point where a clever password was sufficient to protect you.<p>All the database leaks have shown that many people aren&#x27;t nearly as clever as they think they are. I&#x27;m not sure if Passkeys are going to prove out as a good solution, so for the moment I am inclined to say your best bet is a good password manager and long, random passwords.

What a strange blog. The link to a Wikipedia page that no longer exists, the assumption that people would use &quot;Speak Friend&quot; as a password (when the movie password is just &quot;friend&quot;), the counting of &quot;My Precious Cat&quot; as a LOTR reference. Fun experiment but some odd conclusions.

Missing: &quot;Pencil&quot; from Wargames. Principal Rooney had it written on a post-it in his desk drawer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_UqEg1cFqig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_UqEg1cFqig</a>

Not passwords but used movie references to name my machines on the corporate network. Pretty sure my &quot;TMA-1&quot; build machine was unique.

I was really hoping to see a&quot;Sneakers&quot; reference -- &quot;my voice is my passport&quot;

TV, not film, but I have in fact used Data’s complete command lockout sequence from the “Brothers” episode of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>. Something like 60 characters, including the NATO alphabet.

SetecAstronomy is the best one, not listed.

A question that interests me more is: has anyone used the transliteration of the Elvish “Speak friend and enter” (1) as a password? That is, “pedo mellon a minno”.<p>I actually wrote out that line in my journal with a calligraphy pen, copying the Elvish characters - one of my favorite fictional alphabets to this day.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scifi.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;95265" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scifi.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;95265</a>

There was some movie I watched as a kid where the password was &quot;remember&quot; but, ironically, I can&#x27;t remember it now. At the time I thought it was clever, nothing I had to log in to actually matter, but a few years later I decided to change it.

No rycbar123 from Doctor Who, I guess whovians are safe for the time being

Why would anyone pick speak friend as password, mellon is the password?

&gt; <i>Next we have 386 passwords containing Swordfish – a classic password from 1932 with its own Wikipedia page.</i><p>Not anymore, seemingly.

But don&#x27;t forget God. System operators love to use God. It&#x27;s that whole male ego thing.