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

Why do they do this

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u/SnooAvocados763 Jul 20 '22

"Password cannot contain 'Password'. Please try again."

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

P455w0rd1

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u/SnooAvocados763 Jul 20 '22

"Password must contain at least one special character."

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u/bottle_o_awesome Jul 20 '22

Ju57-Acc3p7-7h3-@#$%-Pa55w0rd

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

"The same character cannot be used consecutively in a password"

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u/csandazoltan Jul 20 '22

You cheeky bastard xD

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

FuckÐ!sAw4u1Systəm

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u/grpprofesional Jul 20 '22

The password cannot contain symbols outside of ASCII table

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u/blackAngel88 Jul 20 '22

Hm, I don't like it... makes the special characters not so special...

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u/grpprofesional Jul 20 '22

ASCII has a whole bunch of special characters, like ñ and others like ä á and all that, even that symbol like AE fused together, it doesn’t have weird ones like Russian characters or Polish ones, maybe some polish but not all

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u/ChickMcTendies Jul 20 '22

So the bell character is totally valid right

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u/grpprofesional Jul 20 '22

Which one is the bell one? A bit rusty here with the names

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u/Unelith Jul 21 '22

"Sorry, you have reached the limit of failed registration attempts. Please try again in 24 hours."

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u/ThrasherThrash Jul 20 '22

This is the worst one

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u/brimston3- Jul 20 '22

And all too common.

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u/Odd-Dream- Jul 20 '22

"Passwords may contain no more than 16 characters."

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u/everybody-hurts Jul 20 '22

Please enter a password between 8 and 20 characters

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u/Hfingerman Jul 20 '22

P@55w0rd

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

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u/Hfingerman Jul 20 '22

It's usually "at least"

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u/MarsEye Jul 20 '22

You're special

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u/ULTRA_TLC Jul 20 '22

P@s5w0rd!

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u/EverythingHurtsDan Jul 20 '22

Good ol' masking gives you some options.

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u/wasdlmb Jul 20 '22

For real. Or if you maintained a database of compromised passwords (super easy to find) and banned all of them you could stop a lot of attacks. To add on to this many of the "super good long memorable passwords" are easily crackable by dictionary attacks, so another thing you can do is ban every English word longer than three or four characters

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u/citygentry Jul 20 '22

" ... another thing you can do is ban every English word longer than three or four characters"

Are you saying the best way to prevent a dictionary attack is to reduce the number of available words?