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It's even better when the company saves your old passwords, just so you can't use them again.
Just add a number suffix and increment it each time. This doesn't exactly make your password any stronger but that's not what they're asking for with their stupid policy.
My company tracks the first and last character so you can't do that. Personally I change a single character in the middle of my password to work around this.
Error: Your password's Levenshtein distance indicates that your new password is more than 20% similar to a password previously used within the last 10 years.
Policy requires your password to:
/satire (I hope)
Same. Its so stupid. Doesn't increase security and just annoys everyone.
https://youtu.be/aHaBH4LqGsI