Microsoft and Apple are killing the password

Let me see if I can guess your password. 12345? Qwerty? How about abc123 or Dragon or trustno1 (yes, I see what you did there), or Master?

If I guessed right, then shame on you: all of those feature in the top 25 worst passwords -- along with plenty of other all-but-impossible-to-crack strokes of genius like 111111 and letmein (yes, I see what you did there, too).

Passwords: Decent ones are impossible to remember; easy ones are hardly worth having at all. Passwords: An alphanumeric-must-be-changed-monthly-with-no-repetition plague on all of our houses. This is not a new problem, of course, and nor is it the first time that the death of passwords has been announced. Over a decade ago, Bill Gates was predicting the end of passwords, and yet millions still have a Post-It note stuck to their monitor with '1234567' written on it. And so passwords still leak, by the billion.