Context is that I had to register for a lot of accounts recently and some of the rules really make no sense.
Not name-and-shaming, but the best one I’ve seen recently is I might have accidentally performed an XSS attack on a career portal using a 40-digit randomly generated password…
It’s something like the second law of Thermodynamics. It’s probability, not absolute. It’s possible all the gas molecules in the room arrange themselves one corner, but it’s fantastically unlikely. It’s possible to choose the right encryption key to a 256-bit cipher at random the first time, but it’s fantastically unlikely.