Allegedly, on or about 19 June 2017, Tom Horsley sent:
The sites that crack me up are the ones which have rules
like "you can only use letters and numbers" in your password.
Why? That just means anyone trying to guess passwords has
a much simpler job.
I can guess two reasons:
Some special characters might get interpreted by their software, rather
than accepted as-is.
Some special characters can't by typed on all computers, or their users
can't type them properly. e.g. How many times do you see the Brits
mis-use the backtick as an apostrophe?
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
(always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on)
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
Just because nobody complains, it doesn't mean that all parachutes are
perfect.