“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”
It’s 2023 and I still see signup forms that are like “must have at least one of each: number, lowercase letter, uppercase character, special character (but not
, . " & / + < > {} [])”That, plus no single sign-on (privacy issues aside) and login flow design so bad that password managers don’t know what the fuck is going on, and it’s no wonder password security is still a huge issue.
My old domain registrar set an 7 character limit, no special characters of any kind. Just numbers and letters. This was back in 2020 🫠
Cool now talk about how shitty banks block auto-fill on their login forms which keeps you from using it with your password managers. Oh, and no, you can’t paste into those fields either cuz “security”.
At least on Firefox, there’s a flag you can change in the browser settings to make it so nobody can disable pasting to text fields. It has made the banking experience a lot more pleasant for me. https://www.howtogeek.com/251807/how-to-enable-pasting-text-on-sites-that-block-it/
If a website requires so few characters that I have to create custom rule in my password manager for it… then it’s a website I’m strongly inclined not to use.
Sadly, a lot of these websites deal with finances or employment.
Paypal lol. Literally my most insecure password
you know what’s funny. in paypal you are not even allowed to make a secure password. they have a short character limit.
Yesss my shortest Password. Fuck Paypal I only have it for weird stuff and that Indian Developer that still maintains LineageOS Android 14 for my Nokia phone
I’ve come across a few sites that require one upper case, one number and one symbol (from a short list). Not at least one of each, no no, precisely one of each. One site even forced the password length to be exact -_-
If we could audit individuals’ passwords across services, I’ll bet the duplicate and weak passwords found would likely be terrifying.
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Obligatory: “12345? That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
