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This comment reminded me of a talk I saw[1] about Apple's password generation algorithm. Apparently (and unsurprisingly), they have a list of offensive terms th
by tiltowait 1y ago
This comment reminded me of a talk I saw[1] about Apple's password generation algorithm. Apparently (and unsurprisingly), they have a list of offensive terms the system is designed to avoid. I expect this is common-enough practice in most popular password managers, but probably not all.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dwX2kf6Oc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dwX2kf6Oc
- notpushkin 1y agoIt would be fun to make a passphrase generator that always includes a profanity.
- HPsquared 1y agoSo long as they factor that into the "bits of entropy" calculation.
- yencabulator 1y agoDibs for calling it misenthropy. Entropy mixed with misantrophy.
- zavec 1y agoNow I'm trying to remember where I read the story about somebody who was in a programming class and was writing some program that took user input, and figured that it should be smart enough not to repeat curse words. So they started writing down all the curse words it should know not to say, and that was about the extent of what they had done when the teacher came around to see how everything was going.