Have you heard of MyRate? It’s one of the car insurance options at Progressive. You plug their little MyRate device into your car, it watches how you drive, and you get a great rate on your car insurance. Until they see that you don’t full stop at stop signs. Or go 70 MPH along with everyone else on the road in a 65 MPH zone. How about being quick on the brakes? Your insurance costs will climb right up if you’re not careful, and they might not go away.

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A Twitter user was looking at the code on the Twitter signup page and found something interesting: A list of passwords embedded in the source code that Twitter will not let you use because they aren’t very secure. The ones on the list are common names, repeated numbers, sports teams, countries, and little phrases that you just shouldn’t use as passwords anywhere.

Here are some of my favorites:

• 111111
• amateur
• apples
• beavis (Butthead is on the list too.)
• helpme
• horney
• iwantu
• letmein
• voodoo
• zzzzzz

If any of those are your password for Twitter, Xanga, your online banking, or anything else, please just go change it now. Check the full list to make sure your password isn’t on there somewhere.

What are some good tips for making a secure password? See the rest of this post at Dollarish.