r/mildlyinfuriating • u/King_Baboon • Mar 08 '16

Overdone Fuck it, hackers win.

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u/Grintor Mar 08 '16

They don't want 30% of people's password to be abcdef#1

Of course now those people's password is qwerty#1

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u/ArchangelleShe Mar 08 '16

taiwan#1

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u/Emotional_Masochist Mar 08 '16

bestkorea#1

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

No "st". Sorry bro.

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u/nevek BLUE Mar 08 '16

putamadre#1

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u/Emotional_Masochist Mar 08 '16

If you're going for a stereotypical Asian accent then you don't drop both the S and the T.

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u/Predatormagnet Mar 08 '16

Look at the picture again.

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u/ToastedFireBomb Mar 08 '16

Supremegloriousleader#1

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Supremegloriousleader#1

Nice try.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Laughed way too hard at this

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u/thedbp GREEN Mar 08 '16

Shit. brb.

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u/YRYGAV Mar 08 '16

Right, but if they want to prevent against that type of attack, they just have to download some "popular 8-10 character password dictionary" and check if the person's password is there.

If a password is not in a common password dictionary, it's just as secure as any other password with the same length and types of characters. If nobody has ever used the password "nOOlnml9" before, it's a good password, even though there is some pattern and repetition of characters.

The restrictions on that site scream out that whoever made them doesn't know the first thing about cracking passwords, much less how to stop people from doing it.

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u/wardrich Mar 09 '16

P@s5word

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

maybe that wouldn't be a problem if you didn't make them have ridiculous limitations in the first place. Why not just ban use of the 500 most common passwords (with a list for people to see if their uncreative monstrosity is there) and require a minimum of 8 characters?