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Every time I see an apparently stupid security restriction reason I feel obligated to check if "Password1" is a valid entry...

You won't ever believe how often this work while gibberish keychain-generated passwords get rejected because they contain a "-" character ...

Wake up IT departments it can't always be users fault. People born with Window95 starts to work, they won't take your shady security reasons for granted as did people born in the 60's! They just will just think that your are incompetent...




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