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    theNotoriousJAP: Hooray! I don't see GreenBalloons on there. more »
    A Message To Rudy: Someone hacked into The Devil's Google account because he uses No. 12. more »
    Magicant: No "swordfish" on the list. The Marx Brothers weep. more »
    Daveinva: 123456? That's the password on my luggage! more »
    Magister: Why would or should Twitter care, if someone could easily hack into your twitter account. I admit that I only use Twitter relatively sparingly, but o... more »
    econdave: abc123 Tito is bumming. more »
    DennyCrane: No. 22 (abgrtyu) seems sort of difficult, no? I'm sort of surprised. more »
    badasscat: Wow, there are a lot more fans of the film Victor/Victoria out there than I thought. more »
    homoviper: 40 & 41 are the same: asdfgh so bad they had to ban it twice? more »
    OMG! Ponies!: Thank goodness they didn't ban "Sugartits". I've been using that for all my accounts. more »
    kremlin-king: Can someone explain the difference between #19 and #20 I've stared at it for a while and can't figure it out. more »
    Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan: nice to see that "Pencil" still remains secure as ever. more »
    dumanue: ncc1701? is that a startrek referenced password? more »
    shostakobitch: I didn't see "8=====D" on that list. more »
    snugbug: The best password I ever came up with is a Charles Bukowski quote. No way any password-cracking bot can figure out how to combine words like that. I h... more »
    lobstr: Pointless to have a list when they can just encode the backend to bounce back any PW that is not alphanumeric. That would solve the problem. Oh, twi... more »
    Brian Moylan: Both "iloveyou" and "lovers" are on the list. What is Carrie Bradshaw to do! more »
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