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There is no good reason. Spaces are no special characters in passwords. They should simply be allowed.

• ericd 16y ago
  Surely there must be some motivation for disallowing special characters, though... it's certainly not for security purposes. Maybe it's a weird form of overzealous SQL injection protection?
  • derefr 16y ago
    For a company that really has no idea whatsoever about security: maybe they want to make sure they can read your password back to you over the phone in a way you'll understand?
    • ericd 16y ago
      Hm, yeah, this might actually be part of it. It would make me sad if a customer service rep could read my password to me, personally, but I suppose a lot of people probably like that.
  • bartl 16y ago
    I think it might be so that you can type in your password on any keyboard. Some special characters may be missing on some keyboards, or they may need to be typed in differently, depending on your locale.
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