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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I would always just create 1 password and append a number and it's special char, cycling from 1 to 0; like
1!
,2@
,3#
. Never stayed at a place long enough to go higher than 7 or 8.I never gave a fuck about doing this because it's the companies fault for applying stupid policies. Whenever I've been allowed a password manager, they got real security instead of malicious compliance.