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Re:Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z by colanderman on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @03:31PM (#7745774)
Not just case-insensitive, but character-group-agnostic. All the backend knows is that the user pressed "2"; it doesn't know whether that "2" means "A", "B", or "C". (Or, to my point, "a", "b", or "c".)

But you're making the mistake of assuming they're hashing passwords at all ;)

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Re:Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z by dredmorbius on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:07PM (#7746034)
But you're making the mistake of assuming they're hashing passwords at all ;)

That, I think, is the correct inference.

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