The Week Contest - Obvious passwords

A software security firm has isolated the 25 worst passwords to use online. Choose a famous person and the most obvious password they might use

Contest passwords
(Image credit: Macduff Everton/Corbis)

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

Click here for the results of the previous contest: Strange albums

Last week's question: A software security firm has isolated the 25 worst passwords to use online, including "123456," "letmein," and — the worst — "password." We asked you to choose a famous person and the most obvious password they might use.

Article continues below

The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

THE WINNER: Donald Trump: Trump

Sharon Pelham, Newark DE

SECOND PLACE: Newt Gingrich: notmitt

Justin Turetsky, New York, NY

THIRD PLACE: Muammar Gaddafi: condoleeza

Kelly Bryant, Central Point, OR

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Steve Jobs: Fave fruit

Frank Letchworth, Knoxville, TN

Bill Gates: ihateapple

Karin Gaarder, Los Angeles, CA

Rick Perry: passwo??

Dana Pittman, Letts, IA

Rick Perry: DeptofEnergy

Robert Gorman, Debary, FL

Bill Clinton: ididnot

Diane Gallo, Summit, NJ

Dan Quayle: passworde

William McNeil, Oakland, CA

Herman Cain: ginger

Nancy Smith, Fox Point, WI

Pres. Obama: 2012

John Brofka, Swansea, IL

Hilary Clinton: 2016

Mike Paul, Carrboro, NC

Dick Cheney: WMDhaha

Jim Keenan, Norwalk, CT

Rudy Giuliani: 9/11

Peter Smith, Los Angeles, CA

Sarah Palin: deathpanel

Robert Schechter, Dix Hills, NY

David Mamet: ***k!

Amy Torchinsky, Greensboro, NC

Vanna White: aeiou

Rebecca Underwood, Woodstock, GA

Lassie: Timmy

Mary Hogan, New York, NY

Betty White: Allen Ludden

Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA

Salvador Dali: mustache

William Bernsau, Jacksonville, FL

Flipper: notsmilingforyou

Dean Tow, New York, NY

Edgar Allen Poe: Nevermore

Bork Maronn, Chicago, IL

Michael Jackson: ABC123

Ron Munn, Green Valley, AZ

Leonardo Fibonacci: 112358

Don DeYoung, Warsaw, IN

Shakespeare: 2Bornot2B

Tom Haydock, Hartland, CT

Bono: U2U3U4U5

Kyle Sabatino, Long Valley, NJ

Abraham Lincoln: 4score7

Mike Dant, Green Valley, AZ

Abraham Lincoln: penny

Harold Skillrud, Bloomington, IL

Moses: L8myPplego

Annette Kirschner, New York, NY

Pharaoh Khufu: BiggestPyramid

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, CO

Big Bird: OpenSesame

Rick Simpson, Sacramento, CA

Clark Gable: frankly

Roger Chaffee, Midland, MI

God: lol ; )

Don Stamm, Chadron, NE