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I've known some systems that exclusive "offensive" words/substrings, occasionally leading to the ol' Scunthorpe Problem[1].

Personally, I feel the opposite should be enforced. If you make the password vile enough, people should be less willing to tell it to other people :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem



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