Stupid password rules

UberTiger · 7 May 2019 at 10:54

(Warning some bad language)

Yaayuh! · 7 May 2019 at 10:57

arty said:
Maximum length is the worst rule.

I hear you there, it's damn annoying.

Trifid · 7 May 2019 at 11:08

krooton said:
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.

Marky · 7 May 2019 at 11:16

arty said:
Maximum length is the worst rule.

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

Malevolence · 7 May 2019 at 19:57

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.

Werewolf · 7 May 2019 at 20:07

EA's top 10 most commonly used password list probably includes at least one variant of EAsucks or EA5uxx0r

Deleted member 77746 · 8 May 2019 at 11:58

UberTiger said:
I guess password rules help with situations like this:

Who can 'hack' his password from the gif?

qwerty0 or QWERTY0