• computertoucher5000@programming.dev
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      Convince me this isn’t just training someone’s pet algorithm the same way we’ve all been trained to accept training the CAPTCHAs.

      WAKE UP COMPILERS (It is a fun game though)

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    My bank requires your password to contain NO vowels. I always forget when I update the password (forced to every 3 months) and the error never mentions it.

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      I’m struggling to think why this would be a thing. The only guess I have is someone was told to enforce “no dictionary words in a password” and saw that as an ‘easier’ way to implement?

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    I get so irrationally mad about passwords now, and then it’s like every 3 months, no matter what password phrase I come up with, with whatever non-sensual special characters and spaces added in, it’s compromised in some hack, so no matter how good your password is, they’ll just get it from the source anyways.

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      This is the only way. Except some services don’t even accept those randomly generated ones. Only a slight inconvenience to add whatever special character they want or to trim the length.

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    And not in the user’s last X passwords! And doesn’t contain their name, address etc! And changes every X days!

    Literally writing code to do this rn, even tho I pushed back with modern theories… IT security “experts” set policy using just enough knowledge to be dangerous

    One of the banned words hardcoded previously was “monkey”, needless to say I am proud to carry on this tradition

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    Nothing enrages me more than a password character limit. Thank you for making sure my password is LESS secure with your idiotic requirements based on security recommendations that are at least a decade old.