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So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
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Thats the combination to my luggage!
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I see your Schwartz is as big as mine...now let's see how you handle it!
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I can't believe it! I'm surround by \"Assholes\".
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\"12345678\"
Hey! That's the combination to my luggage!
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Now you can steal all the air on Druidia. And don't forget to change the combination to your luggage.
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what about putting them together like \"monkeyvagina\" or \"trustno1vagina\" or \"(any word)vagina\"?
Just wnated to say vagina a few times.
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I don't see \"labia\" or \"clit\" as banned passwords. So those should be good passwords.
My password's gonna be vaginapantiessexsex
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As long as you don't include \"monkey\" in that string, we're all good.
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Or Gandalf.
Or Gandalf.
D'oh! It told me it didn't post the first time.
love, secret, sex, and god...
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That's the line that's always bothered me the most in \"Hackers\" (even more than the \"Random Incorrect Computer Spec flirting\" scene). Find me a system that accepts three letter passwords even in 1995. Seriously.
or a \"talented\" admin that would allow it...
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My password has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
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Hahaha, nice reference.
\"You can guess where it goes from here.\"
\"He fixes the cable?\"
No 'swordfish' on the list? I'm disappointed in the lack of respect for tradition.
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The most random password has to be \"calvin\" - really?
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I had \"Calvin and Hobbes\" on the brain when I posted this.
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There are so many names on the full list I have to wonder how many people are trying to use their real name as both their user name and password.
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Why is it that they ban many different terms to describe female anatomy but don't appear to have the same prejudice against male?
While normally I'd be miffed at gender inequities, in this case I think it's more that vagina is too commonly used by straight men (largely those who have not and are unlikely to ever see one in real life), whereas there probably aren't as many straight women going around using penis as a password. In fact, there are probably more straight women who would use vagina as a password than straight men who would use penis, making vagina too common a word for password purposes.
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I'm guessing male anatomy isn't long enough. *snerk* No, really, doesn't the password have to be six letters or more? Things like 'penis' just aren't long enough.
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If I had a nickel for every time I heard that...
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What about penispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenis-
penispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenis-
penispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenis?
Good thing hunter2's not on the list.
we can go hunter2 hunter2ing...
Oh, bash.org is still funny after all these years... :D
Wait how did you see my password?
I found that one of my favorite albums of all time was on the list: rush2112
That was a surprise.
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Twitter's idea of password security is a joke.
95% of the passwords in that list should already be excluded because they aren't complex enough. If they are going to exclude passwords based on a dictionary list, at least use the entire dictionary. If they cared about their customers, they would require 3 of 4
-letter
-number
-special character
-capital
-at least 7 digits
Also the article on Consumerist that this post links to does not give you secure passwords. The idea behind creating unique passwords is so that someone with your password can't take it to another site and use the password. So if you play a silly online game, the guy who wrote that game can't log into your bank account.
If your twitter password is \"TwitterMySecurePassword\" and your Travian password is: TravianMySecurePassword... and your wamu password is WamuMySecurePassword, then you can see how a person with one of your passwords will be able to log into all your websites.
To create a secure password it must be unique to the website your logging in to. Citing 2600 as your source doesn't give your bad password scheme legitimacy. Many articles accepted into 2600 are written by novices, and that particular article was rebuked in the letters section of the next issue, as was the previous 2600 password article.
If they cared about their customers, they would require 3 of 4
-letter
-number
-special character
-capital
-at least 7 digits
-length of your penis
-breast size
-how many shots you did last night
-your fav web site address
I swear I left a reply to you yesterday.
Anyway, I think the people at Twitter don't care that much because 1) so much of what happens with Twitter is completely public anyway and 2) there isn't a whole lot there to wreak havoc with. Tweets can only be 140 characters long. Losing all of your tweets would be bad but not as bad as losing all the information on your blog or someone pretending to be you through Facebook.
That said, I think they should require it for the accounts where it's verified that the user is who they say they are (I don't know whether or not they do) and celebrities and companies should be using strong passwords.
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It's Twitter, not the access code to a briefcase nuke. If I want my password to be \"tits\" the damn thing should take it. I save the real security for my money, bullshit like this gets what I can remember. What's the worse that can happen? Some twelve year old Tweets \"1 r f@g0+r0|\\|!!!\" on my account?
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hahaha gandalf
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Apple.com doesn't let you use the word \"apple\" in your password. Which was a disappointment when I tried to make my password some variation of \"ihateapple\".
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Yay made-up-words for passwords!
Always drove me nuts, people who use their birthdays or their street names for their passwords. It's like the first thing anyone tries.
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I'm a big fan of - Take the first letters of a line from a song, then \"l33tsp34k\" it, then add a unique qualifier to different websites... something I can remember which looks like random gibberish to anyone else.
I always thought the most commonly mis-used passwords were spouses' & kids' names or pets' names.
I use a mashup of my childhood phone number and address. It's plenty long and, even if you know me well, you would have a hard time guessing.
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Same mashup here. I figure if someone knows that much about my past, they've probably got enough to steal my identity anyway.
This is sex discrimination. You can't make your password vagina but PENIS is A-ok?!? Harrumph!
I can understand rosebud, but sexsex? You've gone too far, Twitter. Whatever happened to freedom of choice?
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I just bang my head on the keyboard, and whatever comes up is my new password....
Of course verifying the password is the real bitch.
r45r45
oifr
See what I mean?
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I used to work tech support for a website, and we had access to all the customers' passwords. People just don't take passwords seriously. I saw way too many instances of..
- Names (presumably of their spouse or children)
- Various references to sex.. body parts, positions, etc
- Various references to drugs or favorite beers
- \"password\" or \"123456\"
- Phone numbers
I used to work tech support for a website, and we had access to all the customers' passwords. People just don't take passwords seriously.
PKB, no?
I'm happy to see that my favorite lazy password, \"asdfasdf\", isn't on the list. I was also a bit surprised that the ever popular \"christ\", \"jesus1\", \"blessed\", and \"f*ckyou\" didn't make the cut.
The SSID for my wifi is Vagina. Friends always get a kick when they connect their laptops or smart phones and I tell them \"Congratulations, you are now connected to my vagina.\"
I'm male, BTW.
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\"xxxxxxxx\" Nobody would EVER guess that one!
What about my favorite: \"password\"?
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I once spent forever trying as hard as I could to remember the admin password for our home Windstream account.
It was the default: \"admin\"
actually trustno1 is a decent password
+R|_|5+|\\|01 would be better, if the site allowed special characters. Except now I've ruined it for everyone. >_
Yeah, trustno1 is Mulder's password from the X-files. I thought everyone knew that.
two dictionary words and a number? you might as well have a three character password.
Perhaps; if only it hadn't been used prominently on The X-Files.