WiFi Passwords of the World by Tim Ghazzawi:
I collected 77 different WiFi passwords over the course of my recent travels. Passwords from hostels, hotels, restaurants, cafés, airport lounges, and bus stations that span five different continents and eight months of time. I don’t remember why I began to save them, though, once I did, recording WiFi passwords in my notebook became a habit just like any other.
I have limited evidence to support this theory but I’d argue a WiFi password can tell you a lot about a place before settling in. Take “cheesecake”, for example. Short and simple, lightly humorous. A smile forms on my face as I type it into my phone and the young, cheerful, almost-too-cute hostel staff greets me and offers me a complimentary drink. If your password is “freewifi”, I thank you for making it easy to remember even though I predict that your internet signal will be weak and available only in the lobby. And if you are a monster who keeps “@PLDTWIFIhp8888” as their password, I know not to ask you any questions and, given the sour look on your face, I’ll also do my best to type it correctly the first time so that I don’t have to annoy you any further by asking you to repeat it again and again.
- moondoggie (after a pup named Luna)
- tryourbagels2019 (homemade sesame)
- 1cervezaporfavor (1 beer please)
And below are the rest of the passwords I collected (minus the ones whose owners are too obvious). I’m not sure what they say about our world. Based on this list, it seems to me that as a people we’re 10% creative, 10% not creative, 5% evil, and 75% too busy or lazy or not tech-savvy enough to change our passwords from their default settings. I’m spending a lot of time on my WiFi these days. Password? “FedererFan403!” which I think puts me in the non-creative category. If for whatever reason you’re considering changing your WiFi password, take inspiration (or not) from the following:
panamericanas
Greathostel2019
moon_momo123
viajaresvivir
nolarecuerdo
Fibonacci1235
Energia201
moondoggie
MIRAFLORES_9798
0000012345
tryourbagels2019
ElMejorHostel2018.
SeaBreeze15
dontworrybehappy
1cervezaporfavor
locombri4
koko12345
loveintheair
Valentina2014
35496584
jjperez1980
Loa75432019
bunker20
456852Y12
superfly
MtDalara88
cheesecake
freewifi
alldayallnight
happyhome40
haya5577
smile2019
smile2020
noor1234!
F-681-8321
cerrosolo
gorgues10
0143204310
thinkgreen
seanlhyan123
ADAM31287
Shasha101
E86DB483
@PLDTWIFIhp8888
enjoyyourcoffee
D8YB145QQT8
16362-35939
myairportmoment
first class
K556VYMC
pacific432
456852Y123
3050invitado
0105163665