“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.”

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    91 year ago

    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.

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        11 year ago

        you know what’s funny. in paypal you are not even allowed to make a secure password. they have a short character limit.

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          11 year ago

          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