I was recently reminded of this when trying to guess my car insurance password today when their password tool reminded my that "no special characters like "!@$&" are allowed. I had a credit card company that restricted passwords to 6-8 characters with numbers and letters only...I cancelled it immediately.
My car insurance company is one of the largest in the US and they don't allow "special characters" in passwords, my former credit card company with 6-8 characters was through AmEx. How can we let it be known publicly that This is not ok?
Crack a ton of passwords and release them publicly.