Passwords Banned!!

Twitter is banning a list of 370 passwords that it feels are insecure.  Twitter says that these passwords are too obvious for users of their system. 

So what made the list?  password (of course -- even made the list twice), butter (seriously?), testing (for those times you don't know what will work), twitter (lol!).  Plus lots of names (amanda, barney, crystal, ...), some cities (austin, dallas, and  newyork made the list) as well as many sports teams (raiders, cowboys, lakers, ...)

Twitter isn't saying how it came up with this list of passwords. Maybe these are the most common ones or the ones they cracked in less than 5 seconds?

Regardless of where these came from, if you password for anything that you care about is on this list, you should definitely change it.  And the list of what you should care about?  Anything that has information that you would not want broadcast on the evening news, put on a billboard in front of your house, or announced on the radio.

here's a link to the list of passwords: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Twitter-banned-passwords.txt

Another set of passwords not to use: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/01/16/passwords-conficker-worm/  (this is the set used by the conficker worm to spread.)