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My weakest password is probably ebuyer, because their password restrictions are verging on insanity.
They have a MAXIMUM length that doesn’t allow me to use a mixture of words, and don’t allow PUNCTUATION of any kind.
What worries me more about this is that my first thought is they’re not hashing passwords for storage, which was pretty much backed up when I asked for clarification on the system and got told that:
“Currently a password must be between 6 – 12 characters containing at least
1 letter but no punctuation, spaces or symbols as these are not currently
recognised by our system.”
Useful and slightly scary statistics, and you can be sure I have shared this with friends via FB, and will be checking my collection and making changes as appropriate!