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Having your Hotmail password be liamtoh1! is great... Until you need to update your password. Now you need to remember your base algorithm plus a counter. Oh,
by edent 3y ago
Having your Hotmail password be liamtoh1! is great... Until you need to update your password. Now you need to remember your base algorithm plus a counter.
Oh, and some places don't allow "special" characters - so you have to remember multiple algorithms and counters.
It gets tiresome and unwieldy quickly.
- NoahKAndrews 3y agoA password that simple is also going to get cracked really quickly if an attacker steals the hash.
- archargelod 3y agoWhy would you want to change a password? One obvious reason is a data breach. But are they so common to be of concern? I have a dead simple tool to generate secure scrypt hash and encode it to letters+digits+symbols. And I do not remember my counter / rules. Whenever I need a password, I just use the default parameters, if the password fails - I could just increase counter few times until it succeeds. Let's be real, if a service gets 5+ data breaches in less than a decade - it should be avoided.