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Topic	Why do companies force you to make long passwords?
LinkPizza 10/16/22 9:27:07 AM #15:	captpackrat posted... The dumbest "password" rule I've ever seen was creating a PIN for my American Express card. You are REQUIRED to use a date as the PIN (American style, month first). 0911, 0704, 1225 or the like. You CANNOT just use any number you want. You can't have 0666 or 1312. That means instead of 10,000 possible numbers, there are only 366. And there's a 75% chance the first digit will be a 0 (and a 25% chance of a 1). And the third digit can only be a 0, 1, 2, or rarely a 3. Thats weird. Its really limits your options. Is there a reason for that? I feel that would also be easy to guess. There are probably only so many dates that would be easy to remember for many people Not to mention using less that 4% of what should be 10,000 different possibles PINs --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around. <cite>LinkPizza posted [p:968750564] in Why do com... [t:80199906]...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted...</cite><quote>The dumbest "password" rule I've ever seen was creating a PIN for my American Express card. You are REQUIRED to use a date as the PIN (American style, month first). 0911, 0704, 1225 or the like. You CANNOT just use any number you want. You can't have 0666 or 1312.That means instead of 10,000 possible numbers, there are only 366. And there's a 75% chance the first digit will be a 0 (and a 25% chance of a 1). And the third digit can only be a 0, 1, 2, or rarely a 3.</quote>Thats weird. Its really limits your options. Is there a reason for that? I feel that would also be easy to guess. There are probably only so many dates that would be easy to remember for many people Not to mention using less that 4% of what should be 10,000 different possibles PINs --- Official King of KingsSwitch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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