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Obscure password requirements (feddit.org)
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What is your favourite password rule?

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

If I was a bad guy and saw this, I would look for users with many different charaters in long names and brute force them, because there's a high chance they just removed all characters in their names from the pool to generate a password, making it faster to go through the leftover combinations.