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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by jrcii on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:19PM (#11719274)
I had a bug with a Bank of America payment system which wouldn't accept registrations with upper-case Zs in the company name. I went into super sleuth mode and somehow found the company they hired to make it and got a number for their development department. After explaining the problem to the guy who answered his only response was, "How did you get this number??"
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by S_A_P on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:50AM (#11721227)
A few years ago I discovered that the wells-Fargo website would log you in by typing the correct password and some additional n characters after the password. I reported it to the security group and that still worked until I stopped banking with them a year or so later.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by xiix on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @12:43PM (#11723240)
I've heard of systems like these, which would essentially store passwords as n-length strings, and upon registration/verification simply truncate the given string to n characters.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by DarkLinkXXXX on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:39PM (#11719562)
How did you get that number?
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by cowbellemoo on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @01:27AM (#11719964)
"shibboleet" https://xkcd.com/806/
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by Bromskloss on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:07AM (#11722475)
Implement this!
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by nickpsecurity on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:46AM (#11722762)
I see potential for an Easter Egg in a support system. >:)
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