Twitter: Blocking 370 passwords for security

Internet enthusiasts are all aware of unwanted intrusions that happended to the famous microblogging service in recent months. To provide better security, Twitter decides to block a list of 370 passwords like : zxcvbn and 123456 or even words like cookie, password and without surprise twitter.

For information, ideally to prevent piracy you have to choose a password with lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters. And of course to set a different password for each web service.

And people nowadays speak abut passphrases and not passwords.So the more longer is your access code, the more your account is secure.

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