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That’s not as bad as Apple which silently removes white space within your password but doesn’t actually tell you it did that leading to locking yourself out aft
by koolba 7y ago
That’s not as bad as Apple which silently removes white space within your password but doesn’t actually tell you it did that leading to locking yourself out after multiple attempts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13838342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13838342
- duxup 7y agoI honestly don't think I've used a space in a password before... not that it matters as far as the bug goes, but it just occurred to me.
- Dylan16807 7y agoAdding spaces to a jumble of characters is probably uncommon, but using something like a sentence as a password is very common, and also the main reason you want to support long passwords.
- rootusrootus 7y agoI would bet it has become much more common since correct horse battery staple.
- SwiftyBug 7y agoRelated xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/936/ https://www.xkcd.com/936/
- hellcow 7y agoI was bit by this. Spent _hours_ on the phone with Apple support. They couldn't let me back in, and I was locked out for a week. They escalated to tier 2, then to engineering. It's really disappointing this wasn't fixed.
- satya71 7y agoIndeed, I spent hours trying to figure out what was going wrong.