Forcing people to make a half decent password is one thing.
The problems start when companies mandate regular changes in the name of “security”, especially without rolling out password managers.
Thats how you get stickynotes under keyboards or the old classic
[Company name][special character][month][number/year/day]
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By the way, these rules making the password more complicated imo makes it also slightly easier for machines to crack no? With those requirements in place the machine already knows there’s at least one capital letter and at least one special sign
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Cr@zyf@tfr0g!
Forcing people to make a half decent password is one thing.
The problems start when companies mandate regular changes in the name of “security”, especially without rolling out password managers.
Thats how you get stickynotes under keyboards or the old classic
[Company name][special character][month][number/year/day]
By the way, these rules making the password more complicated imo makes it also slightly easier for machines to crack no? With those requirements in place the machine already knows there’s at least one capital letter and at least one special sign
Cr4zyfr0g!?%$
https://preview.redd.it/emia6iwcyc3d1.jpeg?width=4500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea2866a4f7eb36e44337dda693aeed50d6d84260
These days it takes less than an hour to crack your 10 character, all lower case password.
Must contain the blood of the first unborn vampire