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Because between years ago and now, security experts convinced us that you should never write down passwords or store them anywhere.

Paradoxically, they tell us never to write down passwords, yet they also want us to continually come up with new "secure" passwords that must:

- Be rotated every 90 days

- Can never be re-used

- Be greater than 8 characters

- Be less than 15 characters

- Contain at least one letter

- Contain at least one number

- Contain at least one special character

- Cannot contain the same character more than three times in a row

- Cannot contain any piece of the username anywhere in the password

- Must have a gematria value that is divisible by 12.

- Cannot contain an even number of consonants or vowels in months of Saturn ascending

Yeah, at that point they might as well include a random password generator script that satisfies the conditions.

- Cannot contain the special character you normally use so that you can remember what password you used. :(

- Have paste disabled so you need to type it.

- Disable the password manager in your browser.

This is what keeps me up at night.