So many sites require passwords that shouldn't. I feel jerked around - Jump thru this hoop! Make up a better password! Bark like a dog!
I say, screw you. I use a lame password for all that, and a lame username too. It makes me feel better.
For real security, I can use a better password. But somebody explain how constraining passwords improves security? IF the hacker Knows it contains special characters or whatever, doesn't that Simplify the password space? Sure, simple combinatorics says there are more passwords if you use a larger alphabet. But you simultaneously Remove the space of all possible passwords that didn't happen to have 'special' characters.
I say, screw you. I use a lame password for all that, and a lame username too. It makes me feel better.
For real security, I can use a better password. But somebody explain how constraining passwords improves security? IF the hacker Knows it contains special characters or whatever, doesn't that Simplify the password space? Sure, simple combinatorics says there are more passwords if you use a larger alphabet. But you simultaneously Remove the space of all possible passwords that didn't happen to have 'special' characters.