Stupid password rules
- Thread starter UberTiger
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Soldato
I hear you there, it's damn annoying.
The stupidest thing is that longer > "complex"
10whitechurchlane takes longer to crack than 1@£hUb833_
17 trillion years vs 6 years
Also, today I learnt the word "Quinquatrigintillion"
How many combinations of the top 30,000 most used word in combinations of 2, 3 and 4 are there and how long does it take to go through them for comparison?
I prefer to see misspelled words, with random punctuation and numbers thrown in.
Agreed. I've recently switched to using 1Password, so all my passwords are 24+ characters long. I came across a site that had a maximum password limit of 10 characters... I was not impressed
Soldato
I posted about this yesterday in regards to changing an Origin password. EA's dumb password rules won't allow symbols and you can't have more than 16 characters.
Commissario
EA's top 10 most commonly used password list probably includes at least one variant of EAsucks or EA5uxx0r
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I guess password rules help with situations like this:
Who can 'hack' his password from the gif?
qwerty0 or QWERTY0