[tgrass]

I have an algorithm for creating unique passwords.

Here is the result for HackerNews: kcahu3602122@#)*

here for Facebook: ecafu3602122@#)^

(I can create them practically in my sleep. The algorithm is personal and easy)

To determine the algorithm, one would need plain text from two sites and be able to match them. Now, everytime a site limits my freedom to creating the password I want (assuming I can't provide my own security - by demanding a capital, a number, a this a that) I default to the same password. If they get one site with my simple pass, they get all the sites on which I use it.

When you put constraints on my password creation, you make my online life MORE insecure, not less.

Free my password. Don't tell me what I can and can't do. Offer a full page of help describing to those who don't care what they should do. But don't force them.