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by rbone80 1355 days ago
A good password is one that is difficult to crack which potentially means it will be difficult to remember. Long phrase passwords are recommended to be the most secure, but ironically the more convoluted the password, the harder it is to remember. In the case that a service requires a new password every x months, remembering a secure password is out the window. This type of practice encourages unsafe and easily guessable passwords such as “password1”, “password2”, etc…