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Please Choose a Password You Will Not Have Used in the Future (programming.dev)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Isn't the most obvious just an off-by-one error? It checked the 0th position in the array of former passwords, and output the index as the output. We start at index 0 while programming for the first entry in an array.