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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 »
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 »
Botswana Meat Commission FC: 171. Jenkem more »
Smitros: But not Rockwell? Hm. more »
ethanhein: more »
Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The very list they used to crack the GSM encryption! more »
BlowJoy: #216 and #217 means people just really love monkeys. more »
Swifter: They forgot Julia Allison's password, cupcake, and Denton's, 23skidoo. more »
TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more »
Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more »

#yourprivacyisanillusion

The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever
While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples. More »
#censorship

Blocked on Facebook: Gawker Facebook Privacy Guide
A reader sent in the attached screenshot, showing his fruitless attempt to post our guide to enhancing the privacy of your Facebook account. Apparently Facebook found that content to be "abusive." More »
#notafraidtobeservicey

The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on Facebook
Facebook's privacy rollback is especially terrible because it's so hard to reverse. Settings are so bewildering that even CEO Mark Zuckeberg has fiddled his two-to-three times this month. So here's a guide to re-privatizing your profile. More »
#rant

Facebook's Great Betrayal
Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil. More »
#yourprivacyisanillusion

Mark Zuckerberg Hates His New Facebook Privacy Policy, Too
Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos since we rifled through them last night. More »
#photogallery

Facebook CEO's Private Photos Exposed by the New 'Open' Facebook
Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we're blessed with pics of the social network's young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking plastered. More »
#disasters

Facebook Wants to Steal Your Friends
Facebook's new "privacy" settings are even more nefarious than they first appeared: The social network has formally nationalized your friends list, like some Cuban sugar plantation, and published it to people who hate you. You have no choice. More »
#yourprivacyisanillusion

Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. More »
#yourprivacyisanillusion

Yahoo Puts a Price on Your Privacy: $10
Lawful online spying is so common, Yahoo has a detailed price list to reimburse for staff time helping authorities: $10 for basic account information, $35 for the whole email inbox, etc. China's authoritarians presumably get a discount.
#requestforinformation

Is Google's Cupcake Princess Planning to Electronically Track Her Wedding Guests?
We're still gathering details on the fairy-tale wedding Google's glamour geek Marissa Mayer is having this weekend. The latest: Guests are murmuring about some sort of tracking system that sounds as creepy as SkyNet — or Google itself. More »
#googleplex

Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People
Eric Schmidt suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy. That's what the Google CEO told Maria Bartiromo during CNBC's big Google special last night, an extraordinary pronouncement for such a secretive guy. More »
#politics

Someone Stop Facebook's Creepy Predators, Facebook Executive Implores
By day, Chris Kelly extols the virtues of Facebook, where he serves as chief privacy officer. By night, as candidate for California attorney general, Kelly warns of Facebook's "online predators," and says government must "keep people safe" Neat trick. More »
#conspiracytheories

Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you. More »
#thewaywelivenow

Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet's Dark, Disturbing Id
There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google's search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its "suggestion" feature. More »
#wtf

People Begging Google to Be Their Stalker
Google said it can now keep a detailed list of everywhere you go, play your trips back like movies and generate "alerts" for unusual movements. Who wants this? The CIA? Nope: ordinary modern humans are asking to be tracked. Insane. More »
#yourprivacyisanillusion

Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)

Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More »
#google

Any Data You Give to Google Can and Will Be Used Against You
The uber-geeks who run Google don't seem like to think about the messy world of law and politics. But it can't be avoided. The latest example: A Bear Stearns manager done in by a GMail account he thought was closed. More »
#hackers

FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
Robert Mueller promises to keep vigilantly fighting internet scammers. The FBI chief also promises not to be so gullible himself, online, which should be easy, since his wife just banned him from internet banking, for being a huge idiot. More »
#modernandawkward

Right to Trash Boss on Facebook Defended by Aussie Heroes
Sure, Americans preen about their commitment to freedom, but who's out there standing up for our God-given right to curse the boss on internet social networks? Australian prison guards, that's who. More »
#citizenpaparazzi

Welcome to Paparazzi University
Cameraphone-toting fans are apparently ruining the lives of college football stars. Campus jocks can hardly booze it up at a parties or enjoy young women spontaneously removing their shirts for them without the moment ending up on Facebook. So awful. More »

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