[…] 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. […]