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Funny thing at work, I was handling some legacy users - we need to make sure that on the next login, if they have a weak password, they have to change it.

So the whole day I'm typing "123" as a password, 123 123 123 123 all good. So finally I'm done and now I'm testing it, and accidentally I type 1234 instead of just 123. Doesn't really matter, either is "weak", so I just click "Login".

Then goes Chrome, "1234 is known as a weak password, found in breaches, you should change it".

So TIL 123 is still good.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I bet that 1234 is used more often because of the 4-character minimum, like PIN codes on debit cards. It's 4 characters so it's safe. 123, on the other hand, is not safe, because it is 3 characters. /s

My solar inverter admin interface has a certain 4-digit password. So I wanted to change it to secure it, and found out that it only allows 4-digit passwords. Luckily the access point can be set up with a higher entropy password though (it is constantly advertised and had a very "secure" 8-digit password by default, I think you can guess which one)