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Evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker (sr.ht)
47 points by tomekw on Oct 2, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


This is wonderful.

Not sure if the submitter is the one who made this, but thank you for making it and/or submitting it.

These sort of code-as-art projects always make my day brighter :)


No, I didn’t make this, just submitted. Also, I think it’s wobderful as well :)

Cheers! :)


the user repo says the creator is sircmpwn, also known as drew devault, he has a hacker news account at ddevault


In case it's not clear: this tries to use the submitted password to log in to Google, FB, Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, and HN, and reject if it's re-used.


The password manager he recommends, pass, is fantastic. It's exactly what a password manager should be.


The XKCD that's linked to at the end there seems so woefully naive now (https://xkcd.com/792/).




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