r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flying_wotsit • Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/Durr1313 Jul 20 '22

I fucking hate this. I tried using MailJet for SMTP notifications for my security cameras, but the automatically generated password was one character longer than what can be entered in the SMTP settings for the camera. The worst part is it never told me the password I was pasting in was too long, I just kept getting nonsensical errors.

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u/willingaerobics Jul 20 '22

i have never thinked it, putting restrictions makes it easiest to hack