On Sun Apr 3 23:07:14 2022 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:45:47PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > >>> Indeed, all of this happens, usually without any explanation >>> whatsoever. >>> For whose benefit are such requirements constructured? > > Much of it is security theater.
I'll remember that phrase. > Someone (TM) up the chain can tick the checkbox "password security > enforced". Then, the Rest of the Web (TM) goes forth and cargo-cults > that, because that's how the Web is held together. https://xkcd.com/936/ -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin
