Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The World's Least-Popular Four-Digit PIN: 8068

Research suggests thieves can guess one in five PINs by trying just three combinations.
  •  Three most popular combinations—"1234," "1111," and "0000"—account for close to 20 percent of all four-digit passwords
  •  Also quite common are MM/DD combinations—those in which the first two digits are between "01" and "12" and the last two are between "01" and "31."
  •  The 17th-most popular 10-digit password is "3141592654." (ha, so nerdy!!)
Read more at Slate. (Thanks, Tom)

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .