ji32k7au4a83 is a basic password, it's true

I have spoken on two panels on the past year about diversity. I often talk about how cybersecurity is culturally dependent. A recent article on gizmodo is an excellent example of that, and a little bit of a plug for human behavior being a hard problem. Someone noticed that ji32k7au4a83, which looks like a random password and should be secure, appears over a hundred times in the Have I Been Pwned database. Seems too high for random.  What the twitterverse figured out is that random string is really "my password" in Mandarin. Being culturally inclusive in cyber is important, and I suspect most password meters would say that was secure, but is it?

https://gizmodo.com/why-ji32k7au4a83-is-a-remarkably-common-password-1833045282

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