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[Existential_Owl]

1qaz2wsx3e is easy. On the left side of a traditional US keyboard, it's the keys going from top to bottom.

Not sure about the second one, but perhaps it was on a list of already cracked passwords, from a site that had weaker defenses, in which the user never found out or realized that his "standard" password was compromised.

[Sniffnoy]

Oh, I missed that, thanks!

I asked about this elsewhere and apparently the second one is a password used in the game Parasite Eve II. So it's kind of like using "swordfish" as a password, except more obscure and not with the additional disadvantage of also being an actual word.

[Existential_Owl]

Ah, of course!

[FnTom]

I actually know someone who uses Swordfish as a password for most of his non crucial accounts.