"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 the most annoying I've dealt with was Your Password Must Stand Up To Several Minutes of John The Ripper
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"Error: your password must be unique. Please choose a password not already in use"
YouTube
@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.
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+ 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".
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