Password win!

[andygates]

Our automatic password generator for new users just came up with "32!Crap" and "682BumU" in short order.  Rude passwords for the win!  (it used to be word-symbol-word, but the dictionary was fixated on adjectives and mustelids: we'd get "blue*weasel" and "VILE5marten" - though never "shortarse*wolverine"...

Comments

[despaer.livejournal.com]

about 15 years ago my area at work used to generate authorisation codes which were 7 letters. It never did anything rude at all until one day I had to read out something along the lines of XYZCUNT to the girl on the other end of the phone...

[andygates.livejournal.com]

*cringe and die*

It's only after something like that that the developers get asked to put a naughty-word check into the algorithm!