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Topic	Why do companies force you to make long passwords?
Yellow 10/16/22 5:18:21 PM #33:	To go into more depth, a hacker might only get 30 guesses in max before your account gets locked. If your password is one of the 30 most used passwords, you could get hacked. Some of these companies maintain a policy that keeps your data encrypted on their end so that they (or an attacker in case of a breach) can't access it without you. A short password would not make that possible. <cite>Yellow posted [p:968760023] in Why do com... [t:80199906]...</cite> <quote>To go into more depth, a hacker might only get 30 guesses in max before your account gets locked. If your password is one of the 30 most used passwords, you could get hacked.Some of these companies maintain a policy that keeps your data encrypted on their end so that they (or an attacker in case of a breach) can't access it without you. A short password would not make that possible.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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