Sorry, your password is too secure

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by onthedole • 15 years ago

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benologist• 15 years ago

My bank does the same bullshit, 8 characters alphanumeric at most.

__rkaup__• 15 years ago

Isn't there some initiative by now to actually educate people on proper password security?

sabat• 15 years ago

This kind of thing drives me crazy. Why not allow special characters? The only conceivable reason is so that your app doesn't get SQL-injected or otherwise hijacked -- which is why God invented the character escape.

Limiting the number of chars as a security measure? I'd make fun of this but it's just too easy and stupid.

ScottBurson• 15 years ago

Don't know for sure, but I have a persistent suspicion that some people are passing unencoded passwords as shell arguments. It's the only explanation I can come up with.

Not that that makes it acceptable, of course -- or even any less astonishing.

Sorry, your password is too secure

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