Don't give away historic details about yourself

Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by makecheck on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:30PM (#16803801)

No...humans are terrible at remembering passwords given inane “security” requirements that vary from site to site.

I have yet to see a site allow me to “correct horse battery staple” my password for instance (xkcd), which I’ve found very memorable.

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by icebraining on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:35PM (#16804459)

There's an easy trick for that: you use a random password of that style, then you add some weird characters at the end to comply, like "A!5#" - but you use the same weird characters for every site, so you only need to memorize a single sequence.

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by crazygringo on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:12AM (#16810291)

Except for the sites which prohibit special characters, or limit to a max of 16 characters (I ran into this last week, was genuinely surprised it was still a thing).

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