On 9/3/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Heh, check the passwords that most people use, I bet you find they're all "puppy" and "susie".
IIRC, either Brion or Tim did some checking a while ago and found that many people did indeed have very short passwords. I can't find the message however, it may have had something to do with single sign-in stuff.
I do know that the ability to have an empty password was only switched off in January this year: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033833.html