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by ssl-3 833 days ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/936/

(Those of us who know, already know. I'd like to say that we all know here.

But if a reader does not recognize "correct horse battery staple", then you're obliged to click the above link -- you're one of today's lucky 10,000![1])

1: https://xkcd.com/1053/

3 comments

Yeah, haveibeenpwned is a great resource. More sites really need to integrate this kind of check.
I have multiple Google Accounts. One of them, I want to remember the password. The others, eh. I just want to copy paste. Doubly so for practically anything else. I wish they'd just let me copy paste.

I have developed a maybe irrational fear of space in strings such as passwords and paths. It always scares me when people use spaces in either case.

For passwords I have to actually remember and type in (os login, password mgr evs) I expressly use a short sentence, often with spacing and punctuation. Sometimes an intentionally misspelled word.
tfw this xkcd has existed for your entire career.