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abustamamyesterday at 4:20 PM1 replyview on HN

I recommend all my friends and family to use a password manager like Bitwarden, and if they can't do that for some reason, at least use a 3-word passphrase separated by a hyphen.

The amount of times people have complained to me that this doesn't work because of low max-chars on passwords is insane.


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empyrrhicistyesterday at 4:24 PM

One time I had to reset my password with the power company - they had such a system, and the lady had to read me something like:

Uh4zB4DP55WD!

Apparently I was a bit salty with the system when I set it.

The fact that she shouldn't have even been able to look up the password in the first place due to hashing was lost on her.

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