http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/16/password-insecurity-at-verizon-wireless/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/16/password-insecurity-at-verizon-wireless/#comment-6889 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:15:23 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/09/16/password-insecurity-at-verizon-wireless/#comment-6889 [...] I find it very odd when websites put strange restrictions on what your password can be. I keep noticing it because I tend to use long passwords or passphrases with spaces and special characters in them whenever I can. Some sites don’t allow me to use this type of strong password though by putting arbitrary limit on password length and banning non-alphanumeric characters. Good example here is the Verizon Wireless website that I wrote about previously. But I keep seeing it in other places. Most recently I got a very similar restriction it when purchasing a license for Kaspersky AntiVirus. There were few others that I can’t remember of the top of my head. [...] […] I find it very odd when websites put strange restrictions on what your password can be. I keep noticing it because I tend to use long passwords or passphrases with spaces and special characters in them whenever I can. Some sites don’t allow me to use this type of strong password though by putting arbitrary limit on password length and banning non-alphanumeric characters. Good example here is the Verizon Wireless website that I wrote about previously. But I keep seeing it in other places. Most recently I got a very similar restriction it when purchasing a license for Kaspersky AntiVirus. There were few others that I can’t remember of the top of my head. […]

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