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Can somebody solve this puzzle? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sorter_plainview@lemmy.today to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Edit: @Successful_Try543@feddit.org solved it. It says "one special character". Not "at least one".

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

Because if you disable browser autocomplete, what's obviously going to happen is that everyone will have a text file open with every single one of their passwords in so that they can copy-paste them in. So prevent that. But what happens if you prevent that is that everyone will choose terrible, weak passwords instead. Something like September2025! probably meets the 'complexity' requirement...