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I can confirm. I spent days locked out of my Apple account (and all associated devices) because I had spaces in my passwords. After several hours with support,

by hellcow 10y ago

I can confirm. I spent days locked out of my Apple account (and all associated devices) because I had spaces in my passwords. After several hours with support, who needed to escalate the issue to tier 2, then engineering, the only thing that fixed it was me briefly trying a simple password -- one without spaces. I'm not sure if the issue was ever fixed, but I don't imagine I'll use spaces in an Apple password again anytime soon.

lostlogin 10y ago
Wonder what other sins are there. A couple of years ago when iCloud was first a thing, I did a couple of password changes in quick succession. It resulted in me having different login passwords for different iCloud services. It worked for a short time then broke and another reset fixed it all.
- blauditore 10y ago
  Enforced password reset questions. There's a limited set of about 10 questions (trivial stuff like "where were you born?"), and you have to set 3 of them. About half a year ago, I was forced to do this in order to be able to log in again (I'm only occasionally using it for publishing iOS apps). What is this, Hotmail in 2005?
  - pimlottc 10y ago
    And the questions haven't changed in decades. It's pretty simple to figure out things like "name of high school attended", "street you grew up on", "model of first car", "mother's maiden name", etc for just about anyone who has a social media account.
    - koolba 10y ago
      Here's a sample of mine: Model of first car? zSuI2LR9DvDYwr04 (drop top!) First city visited? GGSrqPB78tcJ2WB9 (what a trip!) Street you grew up on? 1pAXzzns5owXNYiU (very quiet!) Favorite food? oEW5AQ738bkGf6rj (it's delicious!) High school attended? 3i5OfyNhnWD0bQVy (go Nonces!)
      - AnimalMuppet 10y ago
        As my dad pointed out, the answers are passwords. If you restricted passwords to every possible make of car, for example, it would be incredibly weak - too little total entropy in the possible answers. (Love the name of the high school mascot, by the way!)
        koolba 10y ago
        > As my dad pointed out, the answers are passwords. If you restricted passwords to every possible make of car, for example, it would be incredibly weak - too little total entropy in the possible answers. United Airlines does exactly this and it's hilariously insecure. The secret questions are preselected and the answers must be from their set of answers for each. There's only 8-10 choices for each (ex: Favorite music? pop / jazz / classical / etc). > (Love the name of the high school mascot, by the way!) There 10 types of people. Those that got that joke and ...
  - eric_the_read 10y ago
    My favorite restaurant in college is a high-end hotel in Johannesburg (actually it's not, and I've never even been to Africa unless you count a week I spent on Tenerife as a child).

by hellcow 10y ago

lostlogin 10y ago

Wonder what other sins are there. A couple of years ago when iCloud was first a thing, I did a couple of password changes in quick succession. It resulted in me having different login passwords for different iCloud services. It worked for a short time then broke and another reset fixed it all.

blauditore 10y ago
Enforced password reset questions. There's a limited set of about 10 questions (trivial stuff like "where were you born?"), and you have to set 3 of them. About half a year ago, I was forced to do this in order to be able to log in again (I'm only occasionally using it for publishing iOS apps). What is this, Hotmail in 2005?
- pimlottc 10y ago
  And the questions haven't changed in decades. It's pretty simple to figure out things like "name of high school attended", "street you grew up on", "model of first car", "mother's maiden name", etc for just about anyone who has a social media account.
  - koolba 10y ago
    Here's a sample of mine: Model of first car? zSuI2LR9DvDYwr04 (drop top!) First city visited? GGSrqPB78tcJ2WB9 (what a trip!) Street you grew up on? 1pAXzzns5owXNYiU (very quiet!) Favorite food? oEW5AQ738bkGf6rj (it's delicious!) High school attended? 3i5OfyNhnWD0bQVy (go Nonces!)
    - AnimalMuppet 10y ago
      As my dad pointed out, the answers are passwords. If you restricted passwords to every possible make of car, for example, it would be incredibly weak - too little total entropy in the possible answers. (Love the name of the high school mascot, by the way!)
      - koolba 10y ago
        > As my dad pointed out, the answers are passwords. If you restricted passwords to every possible make of car, for example, it would be incredibly weak - too little total entropy in the possible answers. United Airlines does exactly this and it's hilariously insecure. The secret questions are preselected and the answers must be from their set of answers for each. There's only 8-10 choices for each (ex: Favorite music? pop / jazz / classical / etc). > (Love the name of the high school mascot, by the way!) There 10 types of people. Those that got that joke and ...
- eric_the_read 10y ago
  My favorite restaurant in college is a high-end hotel in Johannesburg (actually it's not, and I've never even been to Africa unless you count a week I spent on Tenerife as a child).