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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, that might be a plausible theory. Basically a bad yersion of you must change your password.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How would that be considered bad? Is this some meme I'm too stupid to understand or something?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be better if the login flow said something like

For security reasons, we ask you to set a new password, please use the "password forgotten" function to gain access again.

instead of me being puzzled why my password doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

except now anyone guessing your password knows when they guess your password right? while that site is safe most users use the same password and any site they use with the same email is now vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes... but your credentials are already for sale in the darknet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Only the hash, not the password

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean they can guess the password you used previously that no longer works...?