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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by hashworks on Saturday October 09, 2021 @09:22AM (#28809633)
Most certainly not. Those systems normally work by A) you providing the old password for verification or B) storing hashes of password substrings.
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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by jhgb on Saturday October 09, 2021 @09:32AM (#28809710)
This sounds like a combinatorial explosion situation for longer passwords and longer changes required.
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