unnecessarily complicated pass rules

Posted by Electronicsguy on Wed 31 May 2017 10:13 AM — 2 posts, 15,943 views.

India #0
I find the password rules unnecessarily complicated. Please simplify it to something like: atleast 8 chars, 1 number and 1 uppercase.
Australia Forum Administrator #1
When you join the forum you are emailed a password, so you shouldn't need to worry about what the rules are.

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atleast 8 chars, 1 number and 1 uppercase.


So you would be happy with "Password1" or "Aaaaaaa1"?

The rules are supposed to protect you from using really simple passwords like that. Also as a good rule, you should not be attempting to re-use passwords that you use elsewhere. If one site is compromised, and you use the same password everywhere, then all your accounts are compromised.

See Ever re-use your passwords? You're a hacker's dream.

The fact is that this forum is joined by very few genuine people these days. There are however a lot of "spam" accounts, which are being auto-deleted. I don't intend to make it easier for people to hack into the forum.