Why Do So Many Sites Have Bad Password Policies?

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By EditorDavidNov 25, 2023, 6:34 pm544 ptsHotTop
"Three out of four of the world's most popular websites are failing to meet minimum requirement standards" for password security, reports Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Which means three out of four of the world's most popular web sites are "allowing tens of millions of users to create weak passwords."…

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