# What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCMU
- Speaker: Lorrie Faith Cranor
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story in itself. It's secret data worth knowing, especially if your password is 123456 ...

## Lectures

1. [What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/lorrie_faith_cranor_what_s_wrong_with_your_pa_w0rd/b7e47e73e915), 18 min (TED's player)