/dumb-password-rules

Shaming sites with dumb password rules.

Dumb Password Rules

Shaming sites with dumb password rules.

Contributing

Feel free to submit a pull request with dumb rules you've encountered.

Sites

You "may use special characters", but only some of them - and we won't necessarily tell you which ones.

Mindware Mindware

Financial services - where we don't allow you to create the strongest password possible.

Synchrony Financial

We put punctuation in the list of unusable characters to make it additionally confusing.

Williams-Sonoma

Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character must be a letter.

Virgin Media