>I mean, I can imagine that a clueless user might have the illusion of safety if they're using something like "1q2w3e4r5t" but if I use "aaaaaaaaa" as a password on a website I know full well what I'm doing. So why even bother?
It's not an illusion, 1q2w3e4r5t is indeed better than aaaaaaaaa, even if it's just the numbers interleaved with qwerty (and probably easy to brute force generate up to it).
>if I use "aaaaaaaaa" as a password on a website I know full well what I'm doing. So why even bother?
Because not everyone who uses "aaaaaaaaa" (or "1q2w3e4r5t" for that matter) knows "full well" that it's insecure?
It's not an illusion, 1q2w3e4r5t is indeed better than aaaaaaaaa, even if it's just the numbers interleaved with qwerty (and probably easy to brute force generate up to it).
>if I use "aaaaaaaaa" as a password on a website I know full well what I'm doing. So why even bother?
Because not everyone who uses "aaaaaaaaa" (or "1q2w3e4r5t" for that matter) knows "full well" that it's insecure?