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because as nostromo said then uppercase counts for nothing. Facebook only lets you log in if you accidentally use cap-lock or accidentally capitalize the first
by zerovox 14y ago
because as nostromo said then uppercase counts for nothing. Facebook only lets you log in if you accidentally use cap-lock or accidentally capitalize the first letter(quite common on phones). If you lowercased the whole password first, you reduce the benefit of having uppercase characters at all.
- fuzzix 14y agoAh, I missed that, sorry. I think the point stands for the Blizzard case - there seems to be an assumption in some corners that the password is stored plain text, but I would imagine case neutralised (so to speak) passwords are hashed.