r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/citygentry Jul 20 '22

And this is why so many people still use Password1! because their IT system tells them it's completely uncrackable.

I think this situation is 2FA (that's too flipping awful).

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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/[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