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No...humans are terrible at remembering passwords given inane “security” requirements that vary from site to site. I have yet to see a site allow me to “correc
by makecheck 8y ago
No...humans are terrible at remembering passwords given inane “security” requirements that vary from site to site.
I have yet to see a site allow me to “correct horse battery staple” my password for instance (xkcd), which I’ve found very memorable.
- icebraining 8y agoThere's an easy trick for that: you use a random password of that style, then you add some weird characters at the end to comply, like "A!5#" - but you use the same weird characters for every site, so you only need to memorize a single sequence.
- crazygringo 8y agoExcept for the sites which prohibit special characters, or limit to a max of 16 characters (I ran into this last week, was genuinely surprised it was still a thing).