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Hackers are using people's email addresses
I used "dude" for a password on a site I really didn't care about a couple of years ago. And the worst part is the fact that the website actually allowed me to use a four character password, and just lowercase letters.
It wasn't a time when I used my normal email address for the account sign up.
"I used "dude" for a password on a site I really didn't care about a couple of years ago."
CIA level stuff, man. LOL
I use very long passwords if allowed, but many places don't let you use anything longer than 8 characters.
maratsade wrote:I use very long passwords if allowed, but many places don't let you use anything longer than 8 characters.
It's very annoying. Many don't allow you to use characters other than letters and numbers, either. They need to get with 2018.
That annoys me too, because I use characters. I don't know why some places don't allow them. I know nothing about this stuff, so I wonder, is it more expensive or cumbersome to the site to allow long passwords and the use of characters?
GabeU wrote:
. Many don't allow you to use characters other than letters and numbers, either. They need to get with 2018.
maratsade wrote:I know nothing about this stuff, so I wonder, is it more expensive or cumbersome to the site to allow long passwords and the use of characters?
Good question. It probably is more difficult to allow longer passwords and or additional characters, but that they don't do so, regardless, is just "bad business". :(
