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Account breaches are so god damn annoying. That coupled with the stupid rules for coming up with passwords (only 6-8 characters, a-z,A-Z,0-9 allowed!) makes it
by twotavol 10y ago
Account breaches are so god damn annoying. That coupled with the stupid rules for coming up with passwords (only 6-8 characters, a-z,A-Z,0-9 allowed!) makes it really frustrating to keep track of and manage passwords for sites like this.
Hurry up and solve the user identification problem, HN.
- emilburzo 10y ago^ exactly the reasons I went ahead and started using KeePassX. It's a bit terrifying at first to not know any of your passwords, but you get used to it.
- mod 10y agoIt doesn't bother me, given the ubiquity of email resets. I do still have a bunch of really old ones (pre-password-manager) memorized, though.
- ChrisGranger 10y agoIt's astounding to me that some sites still limit passwords to such a small number of characters. "Security? We're not even trying."
- koolba 10y agoEven stupider are sites that require exactly N characters. Also, they usually pick small N for that as well.
- speedyapoc 10y agoI know a local bank that limits password lengths to exactly 7, and the contents of the passwords to ONLY DIGITS. I can't imagine how many users are going to just use their phone number.