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The mist of the www (feddit.org)
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[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's no way of knowing if a password is valid without the matching username. That doesn't make any sense.

[–] Hack3900@lemy.lol 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You underestimate my capacity to store passwords in plaintext and iterate over all of them for no good reason

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Server should also answer: 5 characters correct, 2 on correct positions

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago

Passwordle!

I thought for a minute that that would be a fun password manager easter egg, but all my passwords are randomly generated so it would be super hard.