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more about #valleywag 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 » 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 » -
#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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 » -
#thewaywewere
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in Prep School
Where did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg learn his imperious ways? Before he dropped out of Harvard, our social overlord was schooled in ruling others at Phillips Exeter Academy. Via a fellow Exonian, a leaked pic: More » -
#crime
Prison Official Sacked Over Facebook Friends Behind Bars
Nathan Singh, a 27-year-old U.K. prison warden, has been fired for making friends with 13 criminals on Facebook. Singh was suspected of smuggling cell phones to his Facebook pals. More » -
#meltdowns
Nouriel Roubini Copters His Way Back Home
Who's the most popular guy in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades? Why, none other than Nouriel Roubini, New York University's own Dr. Doom. He just got back from a world tour. More » -
#twitter
Mark Zuckerberg Outs Himself on Twitter
Facebook almost bought Twitter for $500 million last year. The deal didn't happen — but the service found a fan in 24-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This morning, he revealed himself as "finkd" on Twitter. More » -
#greatmomentsinpr
How Mark Zuckerberg TOSsed Facebook Under the Bus
Only lawyers and nerds get excited about debating a website's terms of service. And yet Facebook managed to turn a change in its legalese into a PR nightmare. Here's an anatomy of the debacle. More » -
#blagosphere
Rod Blagojevich Signs Another Document
The question isn't why crazy-corrupt Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was impeached; it's why it took so long. It turns out the guy has a popular touch! A very popular one. And an update! More » -
#shanamadoff
Hedge-fund fraudster's niece disappears from Facebook
In trouble with the law? First, get a lawyer. Second, delete your Facebook page. Shana Madoff Swanson, couture-loving niece of accused Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, has followed that script.
