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Are Apple’s auto-generated passwords weak? (zerobytes.monster)
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The original post: /r/cybersecurity by /u/sachin1118 on 2024-11-20 15:26:07.

I’m all for using randomly generated passwords, but one thing I’ve noticed about Apple’s auto-generated passwords is they always come in some format like this.

pwnqlv-ahf5Ab-owpnvp

It always follows this exact format. A 20 character password, with three chunks of 6 alphanumeric characters, divided by 2 hyphens. There’s always only one capital letter, and one number in the password.

Wouldn’t it make much more sense to just throw in a random assortment of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols?

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