Worked on a system like this once. Nobody wanted to fix the actual backend problem so this limitation was a requirement. But I figured that advertising these li

Worked on a system like this once. Nobody wanted to fix the actual backend problem so this limitation was a requirement. But I figured that advertising these little "quirks" in the login flow would give hackers ideas, so instead I just added a function to transform the "bad input" into an alternative set of characters that wouldn't have a negative effect on upstream. Since you couldn't view the saved password, nobody realized they were being transformed behind the scenes. Stupid yet effective.