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4 of the top 10 password strength tools are giving people bad password advice, and they don't care. (projectblack.io)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/secops

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4 of the top 10 password strength tools are giving people bad password advice, and they don't care.::Think your password is strong? Ever trusted a password strength tool online (or maybe you don't trust anything)? You might be surprised to see how far off the mark some of the most popular password strength tools are.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't trust those online password strength checkers, send them to me instead.

[–] xantoxis 4 points 1 year ago

Contacting the Tool Maintainers

The organisations that maintain these tools might not be aware of modern password cracking techniques so I contacted them so they could make any necessary changes.
security.org - email sent 20/09/23 [. . .]
Unfortunately, none of them have responded thus far.

lmao

Well I hope they read your email so they can find out about things we've known about passwords for 20 years or more. That oughta fix it.