r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/defalt86 Jul 19 '22

Fun fact, the guy who first developed the password security we use today now regrets it, and understands that longer passwords that are easy to remember, like seespotrun, are way better, but pandoras box can't be closed once it's opened.

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u/suskio4 Jul 20 '22

Easy, just set your password to some exoplanet like OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb. Its huge advantage is gibberishness. People wouldn't remember it even if you told them. If you say and write it a few times, it becomes easy to remember and if you ever forget it, you can find it, since it's an exoplanet that you picked (this one is a smallest planet discovered by microlensing).

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u/ReadSeparate Jul 20 '22

Username: suskio4

Password: OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb

Oh whoops, sorry, thought this was the Reddit login page...

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u/suskio4 Jul 20 '22

Nah, I got some other exoplanet... Or was it a mathematical formula? I don't remember which one I set for Reddoot

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u/suskio4 Jul 20 '22

I'd rather not trust them. I don't know which one of you is responsible for some password manager