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by ZPrimed 178 days ago
Companies that are limiting what characters people use in their passwords are almost definitely doing something incredibly wrong with security.

(passwords should be hashed...)

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This is one of my go-to checks for actual security (not the one in yhe certification)

- limits on the length

- limits on the characters

- blocking paste

- weird limits on the email

This is a sign of a lack of real competence