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  • soulifix@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldInfuriating Password Policies
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    1 year ago

    Places like Flickr can go fuck themselves because they want 12-character password limits. 12! Some people can barely even remember a 6 string password much less one that’s 12.

    Why 12? “SECURITY!” they’d spam. I’ve found it more secure to have a mix of special characters, lowercase/uppercase and numbers than the longer string of a password. Just means you’re going to increase the volume of people having to reset their passwords now and then because you required them to make it 12 characters long.

    I don’t understand why people would like 12 characters…