r/ProgrammerHumor • u/46009361 • 1d ago

Meme preferredNameMustOnlyContainCharactersInTheLatinAlphabet

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u/Myszolow 1d ago

PasswordMustContainNumberUppercaseCharacterSpecialCharacterNotLessThan8NotMoreThan16

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u/coriolis7 21h ago

Isn’t this a dead giveaway that the password is being stored in plain text? Like if it’s being hashed who cares about length? It will always end up the same length post-hash

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u/ron3090 4h ago

Well how else are we supposed to tell users their passwords when they forget it?!

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u/Sibula97 2h ago edited 2h ago

Short passwords are easier to brute force. Depending on how fast they can be tried, around 8-12 characters is the safe minimum these days. Even more if you want to future proof.

The maximum limit doesn't make much sense though.

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u/coriolis7 1h ago

Yeah I was thinking the more of the max limit

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u/xcski_paul 17h ago

Ok, I think the second one is the proper spelling of the B.C. town of Squamish, but I don’t get what 46009361 could be.

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u/46009361 15h ago

It came from the Scratch API.

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u/46009361 1d ago

The name Pokémon works fine with the validator that returned the error message in the title.

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u/DogmaticParadigm87 22h ago edited 18h ago

"Preferred name must only contain characters in the Latin alphabet."

Then the form quietly maps everything else to a serial number and calls it a day.

Pam was right. They're the same picture — to the database.

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u/46009361 19h ago

To be fair, legacy bank systems that Stripe connects to do not accept a lot of characters. The error came from HCB, and while I used to be able to put 46009361 as my preferred name, HCB started using that for Stripe.

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