Authenticated poetry
The haikus on this page are sourced from a file of 30000 commonly used passwords. We all
collaboratively authored them thanks to our lousy security instincts.
пароль internet
samantha golfer scooter
test orange cookie
What is this?
In the application data stored by Google Chrome is a file named passwords.txt with 30000
commonly used passwords. These are used by the Zxcvbn password strength estimator from
Dropbox. Chrome has several billion users so this file is on millions if not billions of
devices. I was interested in seeing what art could be gleaned from such a common file. So
I calculated how many syllables are found in each password. From this data I could extract
all the haikus in the file, comprised of sequences of passwords which accumulate into a
haiku. Perhaps this is some of the most widespread poetry in the world. For more
information, read my blog post: Finding the haikus in passwords.txt