"Please set a new password for your account."
okay
"Your password does not meet your organization policy."
okay, you could have hinted that in the interface before I hit enter, but what's the policy
"It's a secret to everybody."
@0xabad1dea
"Error: your password must be unique. Please choose a password not already in use"
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@0xabad1dea doubly hateful when your password manager has just saved the new invalid password and you're cheap so there's no history to go back to get the still valid one
@0xabad1dea I had one site that rejected all the passwords generated by my password manager. I eventually tried "Password123" (without quotes) which was accepted.
@0xabad1dea
+ Your password must embody all three corporate values.
+ Your password must increase revenue over last year by at least 3.5% .
+ Your password must comply with both US and EU privacy laws.
+ Your password cannot rhyme with "orange".
+ Your password must be a riddle that has two distinct solutions.
+ If I roll a 1 on this d20, you have to choose a different password anyway.
@0xabad1dea try this pass
Y3Ll0wM@NL0V3SA1D@t@C3nter$
@wizmax I think this is meant to be a joke and not malicious. Respectfully, please don’t send me gifs of the man actively trying to destroy my life and my homeland as a joke, it’s not as funny as you may have hoped
@0xabad1dea I'm sorry lad! (Ik and tbh he's messing up with everyone's life)
@0xabad1dea also a fan of the combination of "must contain special characters" and "no, not that one!" without saying which.
oof, feeling this pain acutely since I just played exactly this game the other day.
Me: Why yes, my new password has 20 characters, a mix of upper, lower, digits, and punctuation, and isn't one of the last 5 I've used.
Windows: No
Me: why?
Windows: 🙊
@0xabad1dea Been there. Whaddya want? Do I need a special character?
@0xabad1dea Agh! The stupid! It burns!
Password(month)(year)!
PasswordMay2026!
Yeahhhh, that works mostly everywhere, easily updates, and is a totes terrible password.
But most orgs cant even be arsed to follow NIST's 2017 password directive, let alone 2025's.
Organisation policy: All passwords must be "different".
@0xabad1dea you should only store your password policy as a salted hash
@0xabad1dea When I see this, all I think is "Grumble, grumble".
@0xabad1dea @catsalad “not only is the complexity a secret the input truncates before hashing. We won’t tell you but your password fields when logging in later do not, nor will we tell you how many characters it truncates to.
Have as much fun with this as we did when we designed it.”
@0xabad1dea cheese shop sketch... Don't tell me, I'm keen to guess
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