Dumb Password Rules

2023-03-02 12:05

Troy Hunt is collecting examples of dumb password rules.

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.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/dumb-password-rules.html

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