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Re:Partial password usability sucks by tedunangst on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:43PM (#19322017)
Make your security policy difficult enough to comply with, and people will find workarounds like pasting their passwords into strangers' websites.
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Re:Partial password usability sucks by fjeuplos on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:35AM (#19328825)
Or people will just pick short passwords so its easier to count along the chars in their head. Again, not a thing we really want to encourage.
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