[xkcd] Password Strength

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Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.

🔗 xkcd.com/936 · #936

Why it resonates: NIST's 2024 password guidelines finally caught up to what this comic proved in 2011 — entropy beats complexity rules, and "correct horse battery staple" is still the gold standard for the argument.

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