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by twotavol 3685 days ago
Account breaches are so god damn annoying. That coupled with the stupid rules for coming up with passwords (only 6-8 characters, a-z,A-Z,0-9 allowed!) makes it really frustrating to keep track of and manage passwords for sites like this.

Hurry up and solve the user identification problem, HN.
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ChrisGranger 3684 days ago
It's astounding to me that some sites still limit passwords to such a small number of characters. "Security? We're not even trying."
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koolba 3684 days ago
Even stupider are sites that require exactly N characters. Also, they usually pick small N for that as well.
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speedyapoc 3684 days ago
I know a local bank that limits password lengths to exactly 7, and the contents of the passwords to ONLY DIGITS. I can't imagine how many users are going to just use their phone number.
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emilburzo 3685 days ago
^ exactly the reasons I went ahead and started using KeePassX.

It's a bit terrifying at first to not know any of your passwords, but you get used to it.

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mod 3684 days ago
It doesn't bother me, given the ubiquity of email resets.

I do still have a bunch of really old ones (pre-password-manager) memorized, though.

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