It really does surprise me how often people do things like this.
“I guess it’s just a genetic flaw in humans,” said Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, which makes software for blocking hackers. “We’ve been following the same patterns since the 1990s.”
It really does surprise me how often people do things like this.
This is a quote from someone being interviewed about bad but common passwords. Would this be labeled a semantic stopsign, or a fake explanation, or …?
Fake explanation—he noticed a pattern and picked something which can cause that kind of pattern, without checking if it would cause that pattern.