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Originally posted by Scoot951
My guess is becuase it's harder to guess a 5-letter (70 mil combos my calculator tells me) word than 2 (1400), and you can't login using a ruler name.
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Surely the password protects the user name though? A valid argument can be made for requiring a password to be at least 5 (or more) characters in the interests of security; but given that I really don't see how that argument can be applied to user names.
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