Mel Brooks fans are well aware of this scene from Spaceballs The Movie. As with all things Mel Brooks this movie is over the top: only screwball character would leave planetary security protected by a password as absurd as: 12345. Right?

Enter Bashar al-Assad the latest victim of the hactavist group Anonymous. The group hacked the  Syrian President’s email accounts and dumped hundreds of pages of not so nice material on the web.

But by the sound of things it didn’t need a super covert group of genius hackers to get into Assad’s files which were guarded by the password . . .

You guessed it 12345.

We know dictators are not so good with computers. But we feel embarrassed for this guy so we would like to offer him some secure passwords that are not obvious at all.

Guest

Password (as well as the underutilized Password2)

Assad

Syria

asdf

letmein

xxxxxx

91165 (his birthday)

or if they are feeling creative 54321

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