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.”
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.
And happy new year to everyone.