More than a decade after first examining the issue, research by the University of Plymouth has shown most of the top 10 English-speaking websites offer little or no advice guidance on creating passwords that are less likely to be hacked.
Some still allow people to use the word 'password', while others will allow single-character passwords and basic words including a person's surname or a repeat of their user identity.
Professor of Information Security Steve Furnell conducted the research, having carried out similar assessments in 2007, 2011 and 2014.
Have password restrictions ever helped?
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:11AM
Guess we've outgrown the oblig xkcd.
But the whole thing boils down to: most people cannot remember long random character passwords. So they write them down on post it notes and stick them on or near the computer. Or they create a text file with a name something like WFB-PW and stash it in Docs. The thing is that with modern computing power, long many character passwords are no safer than a 4 character Password. If you are worried about being hacked just don't do financial transactions over the internet.
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