Twitter appears to have learned from its security scare earlier this year and seems to be taking password security more seriously than most Internet services.
TechCrunch and a few other people noticed this list of 370 passwords that Twitter bans its members from using when they sign up for new accounts. They range from the obvious — “password,” “twitter,” etc. — to the obscene and bizarre.
Why ban them? They’re very easy for humans and brute-force hacking scripts to figure out, making it easier for people to get access to your account. On Twitter, this can be embarrassing. On other sites, this can be very costly.
A good, strong password is long, has multiple numbers and letters, mixes upper and lower case, and includes special characters like ! or &. Different sites use different security techniques, and might not allow some characters. But in general, the harder to remember, the better! (Which doesn’t help when you forget your password, of course.)
Here’s the full list of banned Twitter passwords, via TechCrunch:
FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
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1. 111111 |
51. beaver 52. beavis 53. bigdaddy 54. bigdog 55. birdie 56. bitches 57. biteme 58. blazer 59. blonde 60. blondes 61. bond007 62. bonnie 63. booboo 64. booger 65. boomer 66. boston 67. brandon 68. brandy 69. braves 70. brazil 71. bronco 72. broncos 73. bulldog 74. buster 75. butter 76. butthead 77. calvin 78. camaro 79. cameron 80. canada 81. captain 82. carlos 83. carter 84. casper 85. charles 86. charlie 87. cheese 88. chelsea 89. chester 90. chicago 91. chicken 92. cocacola 93. coffee 94. college 95. compaq 96. computer 97. cookie 98. cooper 99. corvette 100. cowboy |
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