WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password

Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by michaelt on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:30AM (#23428267)

Password length rules are enforced at form submission time, before the account is opened - whereas the twitter post says the account was opened, then permaclosed.

If that's their password length checker, they've got the maddest password length check design I've ever heard of.

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Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi... by ceejayoz on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:42AM (#23428399)

That's not what the Twitter post says, at all.

> Recently, I decided to change the password.

and in a subsequent tweet:

> Within 45 SECONDS of me changing the password, my WeChat account was permanently closed.

Nearly instant, likely automated based on that timeline, and immediately after a "change password" form submission.

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