Shouldn't most of these increase the list of possible passwords? Min 8 figures certainly makes it harder than if passwords were 3 or 4 letters. Plus, since people are less likely to use symbols or numbers if they don't have to, the number of possibilities each figure could be goes up from 26 to 46. So, yeah, these restrictions definitely help.
The real question is, how do you factor in the fact that it is far far more likely people will need to save this password somewhere (writing it down or saving it in a document) because they aren't going to remember it?
The real question is, how do you factor in the fact that it is far far more likely people will need to save this password somewhere (writing it down or saving it in a document) because they aren't going to remember it?
This always comes up and is rarely an issue, for anything you're doing at home. Who cares if you have a piece of paper somewhere with a bunch of passwords on it, someone would need to break into your home and find it to make use of it.
I always keep a glass vial of scopalamine under my tongue to foil rubber hose attacks on my Amazon account. Anyone tries to get me to give up the pw and boom I'm in a hallucogenic fugue state for 2-3 days.
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u/Protonion Mar 08 '16
The hackers have a much smaller list of possible passwords since there are so many restrictions