This is up there with buffer overflow bugs (is counting really that hard?) for things we bitch about all the time, yet somehow developers manage to ignore it.

This is up there with buffer overflow bugs (is counting really that hard?) for things we bitch about all the time, yet somehow developers manage to ignore it. This type of screwup goes all the way back to DOS days and beyond with similar stunts being attempted with unix tar. While we're at it, let's repackage people using terrible passwords as a newly discovered widespread problem. This situation has never shown signs of improvement.