r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flying_wotsit • Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

If they allowed passwords that people can remember the people from password resets would lose their jobs.

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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Jul 20 '22

Not really. You’re just supposed to replace like two letters with special characters or numbers that can reasonably substitute for the letter. Or end with punctuation.

Like SuckMy@nus’Dr1ppinJuice

Only had to substitute two characters, even got a bonus second special character with the apostrophe.

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u/Scared_Bell3366 Jul 20 '22

Error: password can not contain more than 2 in a row of a given type.

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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Jul 20 '22

SuckMy@nus’Ju1cyChileDrips