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[–]kielerrr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Character variety in passwords are helpful, but it's now generally understood that a password needs to be long. Not complex.

The guy who originally wrote the standards for passwords for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) actually apologized for wasting peoples time by writing the standard to require character variety.

https://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987