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I do not think that accomplishes what you think it does

Posted: Friday, April 10th, 2009 @ 12:36 pm in Foofy, General, Science | Comments Off

Recently I had to create a password for a new online account. One of the password creation rules was:
No two consecutive characters may be identical.
I suppose there’s some value in making sure your users don’t create passwords like “AAAAAA”, but come on, no consecutive repeated characters at all?! That does nothing to make [...]