BlackBerry Blacklisted The 'Pooh' Gang

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What does RIM have against Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore? Who knows? When it comes to RIM and strange stuff like this, the possibilities are endless. ;)

What he wasn't able to clarify, though, was why the BlackBerry blacklist enforces such a brutally disproportionate prohibition against names found on the character list of "Winnie the Pooh." Fully five of the no-can-do 106 -- tigger, rabbit, eeyore, piglet and poohbear - are plucked from the pages of the children's classic.
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All of these things are just common passwords, it doesn't matter what the words actually are. They probably just compared common passwords of their current users or used a common password list that was published in a recent scholarly article that every PC security expert on earth has read.
 
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