So then perhaps we have one rule, that passwords must not be short. These days, given the state of cloud computing and GPU password hash cracking, any password of 8 characters or less is perilously close to no password at all. I'll go so far as to say your password is too damn short. We can certainly debate whether "correct horse battery staple" is a viable password strategy or not, but the argument here is mostly that length matters. Have you seen the classic XKCD about passwords? The more likely you are to use a truly random password generation tool, like us über-geeks are supposed to, the more likely you have suffered mightily – and daily – under this regime. The world is absolutely awash in terrible password rules:īut I don't need to tell you this. I don't know if there's an afterlife, but I'll be finding out soon enough, and I plan to go out mad as hell. Let this pledge be duly noted on the permanent record of the Internet. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost /Tf9EnwgoZv- Jeff Atwood August 11, 2015 Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
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