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pksebben

That's awful. It's such a security antipattern, obvious as soon as you take into account, you know, _Humans_...

Site: Please make a password

Human: 7#hs&_suiE2KcS0

Site: No copy and pasting

Human: mydogisagoodboy123

Site: Needs special characters

Human: Pa$$w0rd12345

Site: Looks great thanks

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Its like those policies where the password needs to change every 60 days that was found to actually reduce security because of the count-up-by-one passwords people would use. For places where that's been a rule forever it is really get it removed.

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