<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Passwords on Greg Vedders</title><link>https://gregvedders.com/tags/passwords/</link><description>Recent content in Passwords on Greg Vedders</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://gregvedders.com/tags/passwords/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>CorrectStaple, or How I Weaponized a Comic Against Bad Passwords</title><link>https://gregvedders.com/posts/correctstaple-xkcd-passphrases-without-the-theater/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://gregvedders.com/posts/correctstaple-xkcd-passphrases-without-the-theater/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Everybody knows &lt;a href="https://xkcd.com/936/"&gt;XKCD 936&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almost nobody actually &lt;em&gt;uses&lt;/em&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We quote the comic in meetings. We nod wisely about entropy. Then some registration form demands an uppercase letter, a number, a symbol, and a blood oath, so we type &lt;code&gt;Summer2026!&lt;/code&gt; and call it a day.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>