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submitted 11 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

"More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters."

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[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Earlier this year I signed up as a member to a professional organization that also grants IT-related certifications... I couldn't figure out why the account registration wouldn't let me proceed, until I typed a super short password instead.

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