Incorrect Passwords Should be Honored if they're Close Enough, amirite?

This is a terrible idea.

by jadon50 8 months ago

please never go into cybersecurity 😂

by Anonymous 8 months ago

OP 10000000000000% has a vulnerable password.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

OP you understand why passwords exist, right? It's to keep other people out. You want someone else to get access to your account because they were "close enough"?

by Anonymous 8 months ago

And that's exactly how you get hacked, someone hears the password but not the capitalization and boom theyre in

by robb87 8 months ago

No. First of all, what you want isn't possible, second, it's stupid

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Such a bad and dumb complaint not an opinion.

by donnellpurdy 8 months ago

I personally wouldn't feel safe with that. I know it's so frustrating sometimes but it's so much better knowing your accounts are safe. Depending on what it is, someone getting in could really screw up your life.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

This is not even possible as long as the most basic security standards are followed. Passwords aren't stored as is but instead are hashed. Therefore even changing only one character, the saved hash is completely different. To give you a simple example, this is wat hashes look like: Thisismypassword => dfbec338b51c5643ba481625e1075236d3a9a07fbd6393763f253e99024958a4 thisismypassword => 1da9133ab9dbd11d2937ec8d312e1e2569857059e73cc72df92e670928983ab5

by Huge_Pound2156 8 months ago

Also, to further elaborate, there hashing functions are what's known as "one way." That is, you can't just reverse the algorithm and get the hashed password back. You can only go from password->hash. When you enter a password in a text box, the website or whatever runs that text box through the hash and compares that value with the stored hash value

by Admirable_Dig_5583 8 months ago

Found the guy that uses "Password1234"

by Zestyclose_Share 8 months ago

So basically you want like 400 passwords that can get into your account instead of just one

by Anonymous 8 months ago

You wanna get hacked? This is how you get hacked.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

You're totally right that stupidness is unpopular.

by braulio27 8 months ago

Fun fact: Apple phones have a feature (idk if Android has it too) where it has a list of the most common letters after a certain other letter, and increases that next letter's "hit box" so even if you miss it a bit, it'll still type that letter. If you have an iPhone, you know that some words are just more difficult to type fast on and you'll often misspell it, as the area of that next letter is going to be a bit smaller compared to the letter next to that one. I think they do this with passwords too because I use very similar passwords for most of my social medias and sometimes I'm like "wow, I probably completely messed up my password" just based on the feel, and it'll let me in.

by Infamous_Salary 8 months ago

Hunter2

by Anonymous 8 months ago

The computer should give you a hint each time you get it wrong too! /s

by liam13 8 months ago

Let me make this simple for you to understand. Let's assume that your password can consist only of the lowercase alphabet and can only be 5 characters long. You can have 265 unique passwords this way. But if I allow one character mismatch, you'd have 264 unique passwords. 265 is almost 12 million, 264 is less than half a million. If I were to try all possible combinations of 5 lower case alphabet, at 100 combinations a second on a potato PC, it will take about 33 hours. If I were to try all possible combinations of 4 lower case letters, it would take me only 1.5 hours. I can change the position of the incorrect letter (fix the first character, try all 4 character combinations for the remaining characters, then fix the second character and so on), I'd have your password on that potato PC in 6 hours. I hope that puts it into perspective of how bad of an idea your unpopular opinion is.

by Calm-Stable2069 8 months ago

This is just stupid. If you call someone, and you're one number off, should you still get connected to the person you're trying to call?

by That-Bodybuilder-178 8 months ago

This isn't just unpopular, it's stupid

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Would probably decrease vulnerability equivalent to maybe a reduction of 3 characters Would honestly not be so bad if everyone had 25 character password, but at that point would this idea really help much? (For the actual math, its probably % based or a % that increases with more characters, hard to envision the full math without actually trying to work it out).

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Don't make me tap the bloody sign

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Absolutely not. I'm not making my PC even less secure than it already is. I don't want people getting into things like my stock portfolio or my online banking because the password was "close enough".

by Anonymous 8 months ago

I'm crying. This is the most amazing idea. I agree. If we're almost there, just give it to us. Please.

by Anonymous 8 months ago

Troll

by Equivalent_Belt8507 8 months ago

At least be funny if you're going to troll

by Anonymous 8 months ago

who decides what's close enough?

by Mammoth-Resident 8 months ago

Not an opinion....

by cristmerl 8 months ago