Trusted by Millions, Yet So Wrong - Password Strength Tools
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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.

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.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months 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.