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Re:NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know by ryanlol on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:08PM (#13018492)
On several social engineering calls I've had reps who were happy with just "it's just a bunch of random characters, would be a little silly if I tried to read it out"
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Re:NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know by _kst_ on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @07:32PM (#13018942)
Wow, that's disturbing.

Perhaps I should say that my first pet's name was "mellower retry audited grieves" rather than "esrhciaiyzhkj". (Both are random, and both have very close to the same information content given the dictionary I used.)

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