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Who's requiring uneeded fluff in their passwords?
1 point by gte910h on Aug 18, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Perhaps some public attention on "Please use a symbol, greek unicode character, and capital letter in your password" type rules on sites will get them to use modern password strength testing that doesn't make people write down passwords.

Please say "Site name:Bad part of password policy"

github:requires numerals even if entropy is very high without



I'd love to use greek characters in passwords, if only I could be sure sites weren't silently folding them to question marks, or deleting them altogether.




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