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> that the passwords would be recoverable by you Just click "Forgot password"?
Passwords can be used for systems other than websites, where "forgot password"-type reset doesn't always exist.
It occured to me last night that password strength is a predatory system similar to capitalism. My bank recently reduced it's max password length from 20 characters to 15, so in an E-mail I was writing to the CEO demanding they fix it, I was recommending improvements and I realize that an 18 character password SHOULD be minimum, however... If an 18 character password is minimum that actually reduces the length of bru…
This means that if you allow at least uppercase and lowercase letters in the password, setting a minimum decreases the search space by less than 2%, assuming the minimum equals the maximum.
If we even increase the maximum a tiny bit above the minimum, this decreases exponentially. Allowing a length of 8-20 instead of 18-20 only increases the search space by 0.0007%.
So you have to ask yourself whether that tiny fraction of a percent more security for you against brute force attackers (which a proper password of that length is already secure enough against) is really worth having your money in a bank with easy to hack accounts. As a customer, part of the cost of all those hacked accounts is going to find its way to you eventually.
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I have BANKS and INSURANCE companies require CASE SENSITIVE, alphanumeric only passwords. It's pure insanity.
> I have BANKS and INSURANCE companies require CASE SENSITIVE, alphanumeric only passwords. It's pure insanity. Of course passwords would be case sensitive, why wouldn't they be?
Apparently everyone thinks I'm a fuckin' retard over that of a typo.
Great audience. 10/10, would post again.
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This says that "alger klm curry blond puck" is easy to remember. I would forget that very quickly.
Try to make a (short) story/idea connecting those random words. Stories, something with sense and meaning, are easier to remember. correct horse battery staple is the usual example about this.