Bad passwords
Everyone has passwords these days, they’ve become a simple fact of life.
The exceptionally popular social media service Twitter has recently banned almost 400 passwords, which users will no longer be able to use to register a Twitter account. These passwords are all common, and make up the majority of the ‘password lists’ automated password crackers use when they attempt to log into Internet accounts.
Here is the full list of banned passwords (I pulled this from the JavaScript embeded in the Twitter HTML source)
Please be aware of 2 things.
1. This list contains common passwords, some are vulgar so please don’t be offended.
2. If your password is on this list, please change it – change it today.
The bad password list:
111111, 11111111, 112233, 121212, 123123, 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 131313, 232323, 654321, 666666, 696969, 777777, 7777777, 8675309, 987654, aaaaaa, abc123, abc123, abcdef, abgrtyu, access, access14, action, albert, alexis, amanda, amateur, andrea, andrew, angela, angels, animal, anthony, apollo, apples, arsenal, arthur, asdfgh, asdfgh, ashley, asshole, august, austin, badboy, bailey, banana, barney, baseball, batman, beaver, beavis, bigcock, bigdaddy, bigdick, bigdog, bigtits, birdie, bitches, biteme, blazer, blonde, blondes, blowjob, blowme, bond007, bonnie, booboo, booger, boomer, boston, brandon, brandy, braves, brazil, bronco, broncos, bulldog, buster, butter, butthead, calvin, camaro, cameron, canada, captain, carlos, carter, casper, charles, charlie, cheese, chelsea, chester, chicago, chicken, cocacola, coffee, college, compaq, computer, cookie, cooper, corvette, cowboy, cowboys, crystal, cumming, cumshot, dakota, dallas, daniel, danielle, debbie, dennis, diablo, diamond, doctor, doggie, dolphin, dolphins, donald, dragon, dreams, driver, eagle1, eagles, edward, einstein, erotic, extreme, falcon, fender, ferrari, firebird, fishing, florida, flower, flyers, football, forever, freddy, freedom, fucked, fucker, fucking, fuckme, fuckyou, gandalf, gateway, gators, gemini, george, giants, ginger, golden, golfer, gordon, gregory, guitar, gunner, hammer, hannah, hardcore, harley, heather, helpme, hentai, hockey, hooters, horney, hotdog, hunter, hunting, iceman, iloveyou, internet, iwantu, jackie, jackson, jaguar, jasmine, jasper, jennifer, jeremy, jessica, johnny, johnson, jordan, joseph, joshua, junior, justin, killer, knight, ladies, lakers, lauren, leather, legend, letmein, letmein, little, london, lovers, maddog, madison, maggie, magnum, marine, marlboro, martin, marvin, master, matrix, matthew, maverick, maxwell, melissa, member, mercedes, merlin, michael, michelle, mickey, midnight, miller, mistress, monica, monkey, monkey, monster, morgan, mother, mountain, muffin, murphy, mustang, naked, nascar, nathan, naughty, ncc1701, newyork, nicholas, nicole, nipple, nipples, oliver, orange, packers, panther, panties, parker, password, password, password1, password12, password123, patrick, peaches, peanut, pepper, phantom, phoenix, player, please, pookie, porsche, prince, princess, private, purple, pussies, qazwsx, qwerty, qwertyui, rabbit, rachel, racing, raiders, rainbow, ranger, rangers, rebecca, redskins, redsox, redwings, richard, robert, rocket, rosebud, runner, rush2112, russia, samantha, sammy, samson, sandra, saturn, scooby, scooter, scorpio, scorpion, secret, sexsex, shadow, shannon, shaved, sierra, silver, skippy, slayer, smokey, snoopy, soccer, sophie, spanky, sparky, spider, squirt, srinivas, startrek, starwars, steelers, steven, sticky, stupid, success, suckit, summer, sunshine, superman, surfer, swimming, sydney, taylor, tennis, teresa, tester, testing, theman, thomas, thunder, thx1138, tiffany, tigers, tigger, tomcat, topgun, toyota, travis, trouble, trustno1, tucker, turtle, twitter, united, vagina, victor, victoria, viking, voodoo, voyager, walter, warrior, welcome, whatever, william, willie, wilson, winner, winston, winter, wizard, xavier, xxxxxx, xxxxxxxx, yamaha, yankee, yankees, yellow, zxcvbn, zxcvbnm, zzzzzz
A good password (in my opinion) is at least 8 characters, doesn’t use common words (walker, allblacks, racecar are common words) uses numbers and letters and has at least 1 upper case character (although if we’re being honest, 90% of my passwords are are lower case).
Examples!
Bad password: chrisrae
Bad password: banana
Decent password: nurture87
Decent password: 91exquisite
Great password: 889eqrzzC
Great password: Se133mnpz
Obviously a password you can’t remember is bad too, so we need to compromise somewhere!
Your password is essentially the keys to the car in todays world, please take care of them.