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They assume people are using short stupid 90's style password rules. Which many unfortunately are...



Not following...


Stuff like aaa123


Well, if you put in xuui-659995!?)) then it won't let you use this either. How does that make any sense?

Edit: In fact, interestingly I used a pseudo-"random" generator made up in my brain. And there you have a big problem - I couldn't help myself but I grouped letters, numbers and special characters.

I have to ask - if most of us do this, as we pick our own passwords, then don't we by our very nature make it easier to crack our own passwords?




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