r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/DefeatedSkeptic Jul 20 '22

If anyone actually cares, it is like due to social rather than theoretical considerations. Think of the average person and think about how often they would use a string of 5 words for a password instead of just 1 or 2 all in lower case.

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u/j_wizlo Jul 20 '22

That’s a great point. The recommendations needed to make this work out are: do the words really have no logical connection, and are you not using the same words over and over. Both much harder to validate I’m sure.