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I had a few moments this past weekend to play with an idea for visualizing the passwords used against the honeypot @jayjacobs set up. While it’s not as informative as Jay’s weekend endeavors:

I'm messing around with how to visualize 60k passwords, how's this? : http://t.co/ocAjQdxm (cc @hrbrmstr )

— jayjacobs (@jayjacobs) July 7, 2012

it is pretty, and it satisfied my need to make a word cloud out of useful data.

The image below is of the top 500 passwords used against the honeypot and requires an SVG-capable browser and also requires horizontal scrolling, so you can view or download it standalone if there are any issues. For those generally SVG-challenged, there’s also a slightly less #spiffy PNG version to view as well.