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I want more innovation in the password requirement genre:

Your password must be valid SQL, Java, Go, or C++ string. Or a haiku about grocery shopping. This way it won’t look like a password in case we leak it.

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It's pretty common to force usernames to be valid C or Pascal identifiers (only letters digits and underscores, first character can't be a digit). So why not extend the reasoning to passwords. /s

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