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Interesting little history piece, but I did not see any evidence that password complexity rules don't help which i think was supposed to be the point of the article.
The article leads with the US Government changing their recommendations on password policies, so the assumption is that they've done the homework. Still, yeah, I'd have been interested to see the details.
They got it wrong because they never understood how these passwords existed to begin with.
So, how long until these US Government recommendations actually get implemented by the US Government?
The password requirements thst I constantly have to work around at work, for our Oracle server, are as follows:
There's probably others I can't even remember, or haven't encountered.