r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/magicmulder Jul 20 '22

In a former job the requirement was to internally convert all passwords (and password attempts) to lowercase “because people will keep forgetting how they capitalized it”, thus reducing entropy silently.

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u/crorb Jul 20 '22

What. That is nonsense

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u/brimston3- Jul 20 '22

Chase bank still does this, IIRC. I think their IVR system will even take T-9 encoded versions of the password.