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There is no good reason. Ever tried updating password on Authorize.net? Good God! It's the dumbest shit ever. It doesn't tell you the whole criteria in a single sentence but goes through the list and displays them one by one. And resets everything you typed in the process. Kill me now

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What I do on Authorize.Net, and other sites that have password age limits and lack a clear explanation of the rules on the password change page of the rules is tweak the old password.

For example, if the old password was '4phOhc}ve6BErc' I might do one of the following to come up with the new password:

• Increment a digit: 5phOhc}ve6BErc

• Increment a letter: 4qhOhc}ve6BErc

• Change the case of a letter: 4PhOhc}ve6BErc

• Transpose a pair of adjacent characters: 4phOh}cve6BErc

Those transformations almost always result in a password that still obeys the rules.

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