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I disagree. I am always hearing about how this or that service got compromised and stored passwords in plaintext or something, and now all those passwords are in the wild. I write really hard to crack passwords (funny little poems I made up myself) and I still could get screwed because my bank stored it in an unsafe way, and now some russian dude knows my password is "I am so þirsty,5/but þe walls are unbroken.7/Where is Cool-Aid Man?5"

Thus, I find myself writing new poems all the time. Which is actually great because they are fun to make and easy to remember. But yeah if I still used that one (something I wrote in 2008) I'd be screwed. There's no way that's safe now.

What really drives me insane are services that limit the number of characters you can have for your password. Holy criminy that's dumb.




Sorry for the off-topic, but I love your poem!


Thank you.




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