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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by rolltiide on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:05PM (#20892107)
Hi, this needs a checklist or ability to see severity of infractions because some of these edge cases are very dumb to elevate alongside the truly broken flows
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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by bscphil on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:14PM (#20892147)
Yeah, compare the very first two on there right now. The first is "can't use '%'". The next one has 7 very specific rules.
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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by screenbeard on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:14AM (#20894186)
That one smacks of character encoding issues or badly sanitised inputs.
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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by duffn on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:34PM (#20892559)
This is a good idea. I’ll think about how to handle it.
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