Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.
@overholt I donโ€™t do that because I think everyone already actually knows my secret flaws that I think I have hidden so well.
@hooper @overholt The government and advertisers probably do.

@hooper @overholt

"Nobody knows what's wrong with themselves, and everyone else can see it right away."

โ€” Stephanie in "Mad Men"

@overholt passwordKillAllHumans12345
@overholt 18 months later haveibeenpwned.com ๐Ÿ””
@overholt PasswordIdontthinkIdeservelove123
@JetSm00th @overholt a new contender leaps to the top ten on those โ€˜most commonโ€™ lists.
@overholt Your password must contain at least one emoji that you associate with your personality. ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿšฒ ๐Ÿ•
@overholt alone, except for the hackers that post your unencrypted password online, and the people that download the data, andโ€ฆ
@overholt Our deepest apologies to our clients involved in the most recent breach, and also: for SHAME.

@overholt

Is this one of those password management systems that won't let you substitute your secret desire instead? Asking for a troubled friend with aspirations.

@overholt โ€œPlease try again. You must use a character flaw that you haven't used in the last 12 months.โ€œ

@overholt

"... you must bear alone. And with our 488 partners."

@nosaj unfortunate random number
@overholt it saids my username and password canโ€™t be the same. Iโ€™m never going to remember this, am I?
@overholt apparently you can now navigate the history of my teenage crushes my finding my leaked passwords. Some of those were character flaws. Not Nicola Bryant though. #doctorwho
@overholt snowhiteandthesevendwarves oh sorry thatโ€™s eight characters
@overholt Thank you for this useful alternative to my previous "derogatory terms for <choose random minority group each time>" standard, where the absolute impossibility of telling anyone you were willing to type the word prevents you from sharing passwords.
@overholt Click here for 18 surprising ways to manufacture "secret shame" on demand. The last two will shock you!
@overholt nice. Such a secret would really push folks to make extra effort keeping it really, truly secret.
@overholt me? character flaw? Hm... I think I pooed my pants once. Does that count?
@overholt All my passwords are the same: #Sartre, or jpsartre.
@overholt i once had an employee type in their password on my computer and it ended up getting echoed to the console. he shared a private shame and it was horrifying for both of us. neither of us could look each other in the eye after that.

@overholt My password is:

myappstorespasswordsinplaintext123!

@overholt But you must spell "bear" as b43R.

@overholt

Does the character flaw in the password count as another character? So if you make a 12 character password it's as secure as a 13 character one?

@overholt
TheLittleFArmCoversTheDotOnMyIIn"fi"2026!
@overholt that will be a long-ass passphrase.

@overholt

So many to choose from ...

@overholt Rejected because too easy to guess; they've all known for years.

@overholt < three days later >

โ€œYOU STORED IT IN PLAIN TEXT?!? Fffffuuuuuuuuuโ€

@overholt what if my main character flaw is that I am short and consist entirely of lowercase letters
@overholt ๐Ÿค” that would make passwords easier to remember