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 don’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.
@overholt passwordKillAllHumans12345
@overholt 18 months later haveibeenpwned.com 🔔
@overholt PasswordIdontthinkIdeservelove123
@JetSm00th @overholt a new contender leaps to the top ten on those ‘most common’ lists.
@overholt Your password must contain at least one emoji that you associate with your personality. 🐈 🚲 🍕
@overholt alone, except for the hackers that post your unencrypted password online, and the people that download the data, and…
@overholt Our deepest apologies to our clients involved in the most recent breach, and also: for SHAME.

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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 “Please try again. You must use a character flaw that you haven't used in the last 12 months.“

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

@overholt it saids my username and password can’t be the same. I’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 that’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.

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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?

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

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So many to choose from ...

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

@overholt < three days later >

“YOU STORED IT IN PLAIN TEXT?!? Fffffuuuuuuuuu”