Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost
12:58 AM · Aug
I’m a little tired of writing about passwords. But like taxes, email, and pinkeye, they’re not going away any time soon. Here’s what I know to be true, and backed up by plenty of empirical data:
* No matter what you tell them, users will always choose simple
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