Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

  • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some of the restrictions are there to try and protect users from themselves. Most people don’t want to put a space in their password so it’s assumed it was a mistake when they do.

      • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just my general experience, I mean how many passwords from leaked password lists contain spaces? The general understanding of passwords is that they contain no spaces

          • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m sure it’s a chicken and egg situation then, a few services do allow it but I’ve never come across someone using it intentionally outside of people doing it specifically because it’s uncommon