• bighatchester@lemmy.world
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    One of my work applications doesn’t allow you to use any of the letters in the same spot or any repeating letters . And it expires every 45 days . So for example if I used Batman1 for my password . I can’t just switch to Captain2 because the second letter is the same . And you can’t use something like Poophead because there are 2 O’s in a row . It’s a nightmare every time it expires .

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      that would instantly make me very dumb and require a lot of explaining on the phone. like “when I say hello mister Thompson and press down on your foot then you smile and nod, do you understand?” levels of dumb.

      “I’ve used up all the vowels! there are only 5! this means the only password left is rhythm

      “no you can use the same vowels just they can’t be in the same place”

      “like I have to do it in my kitchen?”

      “no the same place in the word”

      “so it has to be the same word with different letters?”

      “no, it has to be a different word with different letters”

      “well like I said I already used all the vowels”

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      When it expires, bump every character up by one - A/a becomes B/b, 1 becomes 2, for symbols use the next one on the row.

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      That also means they are saving that information. I doubt a single character can be usefully hashed. Seems like a security nightmare.