Your name, spouse’s name, or partner’s name
Your pet’s name or your child’s name
Names of close friends or coworkers
Names of your favorite fantasy characters
Your boss’s name
Anybody’s name
The name of the operating system you’re using
String of numbers or characters, like 1234, abcde
The hostname of your computer
Your phone number or your license plate number
Any part of your social security number
Anybody’s birth date
Other information easily obtained about you (e.g.,
address, alma mater)
Words such as wizard, guru, password,
gandalf, and so on
Any username on the computer in any form (as is,
capitalized, doubled, etc.)
A word in the English dictionary or in a foreign
dictionary
Place names or any proper nouns
Passwords of all the same letter
Simple patterns of letters on the keyboard, like asdfg
Any of the above spelled backwards
Any of the above followed or preceded by a single digit
