UPDATE (06/14/11 5:30pm): Big Brother Removed From App Store



(Researchers/Journalists: Looking for the original dataset? Feel free to ask)

In my last update to Big Brother Camera Security (Free), I added some code to record common user passcodes (completely anonymous, of course). Because Big Brother’s passcode setup screen and lock screen are nearly identical to those of the actual iPhone passcode lock, I figured that the collected information would closely correlate with actual iPhone passcodes.

In essence, this post is an homage to the well known Most Common Passwords on the Internet articles. Different articles pull from different sources, so naturally aren’t the same, but still demonstrate certain trends. Similar trends are evident in the data I present below.

To kick things off, out of 204,508 recorded passcodes, the top ten most common were: