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Re: Can't create a password successfully.



On Sun Apr  3 23:07:14 2022 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:45:47PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Indeed, all of this happens, usually without any explanation
>>> whatsoever.
>>> For whose benefit are such requirements constructured?
>
> Much of it is security theater.

I'll remember that phrase.

> Someone (TM) up the chain can tick the checkbox "password security
> enforced". Then, the Rest of the Web (TM) goes forth and cargo-cults
> that, because that's how the Web is held together.

https://xkcd.com/936/

--
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Life is perverse.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  It can be beautiful -
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  but it won't.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Lily Tomlin


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