Remember that famous xkcd cartoon, suggesting passphrases like “correcthorsebatterystaple” are harder for hackers to crack than the likes of “Tr0ub4dor&3”?
Well, I’m full of admiration for whoever the web developer was at Dropbox who implemented this on their sign-up form…
Turns out if you attempt to register “correcthorsebatterystaple” as your password on Dropbox, the site (quite rightly) objects…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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