“The password must contain at least six characters […] with no special characters.” @germanwings, this is completely stupid
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@stilkov For your own data protection the password needs to have at least 6 characters, also including 1 capital letter and 2 numbers. HL
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. @germanwings For my own protection, it makes no sense whatsoever to exclude special characters.
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@stilkov @germanwings Well, it would, if you chose far more than 6 characters. blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2012/…
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@tomingerson @germanwings Does not follow, excluding them doesn’t improve safety. And of course my passwords are generated.
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@stilkov @germanwings The bad part is not excluding special characters, but at the same time allowing only 6 characters, imho.
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Replying to @tomingerson
@tomingerson @germanwings It’s “at least 6”, so that’s OK

Feb 20, 2015 · 7:41 PM UTC