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> if you tried to change it to a password you had used before you would get an error saying that the new password couldn't match the last 24 passwords you had used

This was also a case with gmail sometime around 2015. Once one was forced to change their password by some silly policy, one couldn't use any of the 100 previous passwords. Quite easily resolved by 50 lines of Python with Selenium. Nowadays would be much more difficult with many "anti robot" measures.



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