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Dumb Password Rules

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Examples of dumb password rules.

There are some pretty bad disasters out there.

My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation systems to fail. Some of the systems on the list are even worse: when they fail they don’t tell you why, so you just have to guess until you get it right.

Tags: complexity, passwords

Posted on March 2, 2023 at 7:05 AM74 Comments

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