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How Your Pet’s Name Becomes a Secure (Or Not-So-Secure) Password

Bryn Bennett
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readMay 11, 2020

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Have you ever wondered why exactly it is so important to have 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 symbol, 1 number, and at least 8 characters in a password? Is MyDogZuma1! really all that much more secure than mydogzuma?

As a matter of fact, it is — based on a required minimum of 8 characters in a password and using all lowercase letters, it would take a hacker…

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