Password Survey Results

I am convinced that the readers of the Symantec Security Response blog are the smartest around! The results from our Password Survey prove it. Actually, the number of responses itself proves it to me. At best, I thought 20 or so of you would take the time to fill out the survey—and that would include most of my close relatives. Instead, we got more than 400 responses in a few short days (not even including my relatives). So, thank you to all who took the time to complete the survey.
I want to comment on some of the results. It may be a stretch to draw too many definitive conclusions from the data, but it will be fun nonetheless. If anyone wants to comment, correct, or vehemently disagree with any of my conclusions, I’ve set up a place to do all that here.
Let’s get started!

My answer to question 1 was in the 11-20 group, but on reflection, it’s clearly more than that. Though there are probably only 11-20 that I could name at any given time, there are probably at least 11-20 more that I have forgotten about and will have to request a new password the next time I go to the site. It’s interesting to contrast this with question 6:

Almost 80 percent of us have six or (continue reading...)