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I hate seeing websites that have odd restrictions like "you can use !, ?, #, and @, but not % or ^". I can't think of a reasonable reason.
by jjice 5y ago
I hate seeing websites that have odd restrictions like "you can use !, ?, #, and @, but not % or ^". I can't think of a reasonable reason.
- kortex 5y agoBad sanitization, or fear thereof. You should not be inserting raw passwords into databases, nor should you be interpolating raw queries, but people used to, all the time, so these restrictions may have stuck. But yeah it does not bode well for their security appearance.
- neop1x 5y agoMaybe they are storing it plain-text and it causes them issues like variable substitution in some database backup or management scripts.