370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
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370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
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Re: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
#2What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past
I thought it was the journalist's job to research, not the reader's. Would it be that hard to fire up an email to Twitter and say 'hey, this is Techcrunch, we have a question...'? It's not like this is urgent news and must be published right now or become worthless...
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#3This is a pretty silly question. Lists of most insecure passwords have been posted since the dark ages. Meanwhile, Twitter doesn't store passwords and can't analyze them (without going through contortions).
Re: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
#4What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past I thought it was the journalist's job to research, not the reader's. Would it be that hard to fire up an email to Twitter and say 'hey, this is Techcrunch, we have a question...'? It's not like this is urgent news and must…
In the New Model, it's good for a site like TC to leave obvious questions unanswered, or even a blatant error or two in the story. It triggers comments and followup stories!
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#5It just so happens that Twitter has hard-coded all banned passwords on the sign-up page. All you need to do to retrieve the full list of unwelcome passwords is take a look at the source code of that page.
Unless, umm, that page is itself dynamically generated, and just does the check there to avoid an extra roundtrip.
Still, well done 'leet TC h@x0rs!
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#6Stupid TC post.
Re: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
#7Some of these are so unusual.. rush2112?
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#8In all seriousness, I'm surprised 'jesus' isn't on the list. I've known a ton of people who use it (or some form) as their password.
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#9What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past I thought it was the journalist's job to research, not the reader's. Would it be that hard to fire up an email to Twitter and say 'hey, this is Techcrunch, we have a question...'? It's not like this is urgent news and must…
"this is Techcrunch"
There's your answer!
Re: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter
#10Some of these are so unusual.. rush2112?
2112 is the name of a Rush album.