Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

  • WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used a passphrase generated from a word, kinda like an acrostic poem.

    Exmaple: LEMMY

    Lemonade Endeavor Makes Melons Yellow

    I know the word that I used to generate my passphrase, I’m just missing one word of the passphrase, but I know the starting letter.

    I could theoretically “brute force” all the words that starts with that letter, but I’m just too depressed and unmotivated to solve a captcha for each guess. Maybe I’ll find the missing word, but it could take months.