Guessable

If you have an easily guessable Twitter password or use that same password on another site or service, you should take action sooner rather than later.

These passwords are easily guessable and should be avoided to protect your accounts from being compromised.

But all the passwords you see in the video are easily guessable, even though most of them aren’t dictionary words, and all of them come from a recently released list of the top 100,000 passwords.

True, the new password can be changed, but for a short time people were at risk with easily guessable passwords.

And if those secrets are derived from short, guessable, or brute-force-able strings (such as weak passwords), an adversary that monitors the exchange can mount an offline attack and break the security - determine the generating short secret.

A parting advice to the user - avoid using short guessable passwords, particularly those that can be found in a dictionary.

He found that people tended to leave their safes unlocked, or leave them on the factory settings, or write the combinations down, or use easily guessable combinations like dates.sfn Feynman played jokes on colleagues.

In particular, attackers can quickly recover passwords that are short, dictionary words, simple variations on dictionary words or that use easily guessable patterns.