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“The hilarious part for this website is that the embedded strength checker properly recognizes a good password; but then an additional policy is bolted on, just in case users were too happy.”

Alan Franzonifranzoni.eu ↗

No spaces, no hyphens, must have a symbol, but not that symbol. Most of these rules trace back to nothing. A long plain password beats a short weird one. Password policies are where security theater and incompetence meet.