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btbuildem on Sept 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons from a Professional Password Cracker

Meanwhile banks and large corps still enforce the inane "minimum of 8 characters, must contain at least one symbol and one number" password template.

GoblinSlayer on Sept 26, 2022 [–]

Consider yourself lucky if it's not "maximum of 8 characters".

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