Offensive words
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There are some offensive / objectionable words in the wordlist.
Although some are not exclusively bad words, they do appear unprofessional in generated passwords...
Words
- Dike - Dildo - Dildoe - Prickthere is this warning in the readme:
WARNING: The wordlist has not been rigorously checked for offensive words. Use at your own risk.
that said, i am happy to replace these words with other words that fit in the same spot lexicographically.
Thanks for the heads-up. And makes sense.
I would offer suggestions, but some of those are very hard to find alphabetically fitting replacements...
Is there a reason they have to fit lexicographically, as opposed to simply being replaced with new words and the list re-sorted?
Before seeing this issue, I made an attempt at replacing some of these words in PR #52 .
I would offer suggestions, but some of those are very hard to find alphabetically fitting replacements...
Is that a requirement for changes to the word list? I assumed not. I guess we'll see by whether my PR is accepted or not.
i was hoping to avoid re-sorting the list so that most people's passphrases would work after the version upgrade (or at least they could easily figure out which words needed to be swapped). but i'm not opposed to doing a larger breaking change at this point.
Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I admit I don't have a firm grasp of how making changes to this word list will affect users... if Niceware was just a passphrase generator, it'd won't really matter. But if Niceware is expected to maintain a static relation between a word and random 16-bits, I could see edits to the word list would be a more sensitive undertaking.
I don't have an easy way of generating alphabetically fitting replacements for 400+ words, but it's something I could look into.
no worries, i think we should just do a breaking change without worrying about keeping the order.