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I remember once reading a bank's FAQ trying to explain why passwords couldn't contain SELECT, UPDATE, DROP, or DELETE. I can't find it now so hopefully that lit

• narcissus 14y ago
  My ex was a member of a teacher's credit union. To log in you had to give the account number, the password and the user's last name. One day she told me she always had trouble remembering which way to log in... which seemed strange to me. Anyway, her surname is Irish, one of your typical O'Somethings. When she tried without the apostrophe she was fine but when she used the apostrophe it failed with a SQL error message. When I finally was able to breathe again she asked me what it meant. I just told her that it meant that she should never leave any money in that account...
• lifeformed 14y ago
  No offensive words either! We don't want our engineers looking through our big plaintext files to get offended.
  • DanBC 14y ago
    I have various Google products under my account, which is my real name. One time I gave feedback to Google, from a Google feedback form, and gave my real (and had been in use for years) googlemail account name on this Google form. The form rejected it, because my real name has a mild swear in it. That kind of thing is vaguely disappointing. I did suddenly have to change all the answers to my 'secret questions' when I realised that I'd have to read them out loud if I needed to get back into my bank account. Lots of profanity snipped there.
    • korg250 14y ago
      The solution is simple: change your name!
  • n3rdy 14y ago
    Our engineers have thick skin, they can handle it. However, we don't know how sensitive a potential hacker might be, and would feel terrible if we offended someone who wasn't expecting so see such profanity.