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These days every company and web service has an opinion on what makes a good password. The general consensus is that the more complex the password the lower the chances are that someone will be able to crack it. Providing of course that the password is not stolen by clever social engineering or a nasty piece of malware.

Web darling of 2009 Twitter has gone a step further – it’s done some research and created a list of 370 passwords that it will not allow users of it’s service to use. The list was published in Techcrunch over the holiday period. I’ve taken a look at it and have to say that this list makes a lot of sense, it really does contain some very bad passwords. Worse now that the list has been published.

Make sure that you never use a password that is on the list.