Context is that I had to register for a lot of accounts recently and some of the rules really make no sense.

Not name-and-shaming, but the best one I’ve seen recently is I might have accidentally performed an XSS attack on a career portal using a 40-digit randomly generated password…

  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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    612 hours ago

    The most funny one was a professional and rather costly password checking tool.

    Besides the usual other rules, it had a rule that the new pw must not be similar to the old one. For similarity, this thing checked each character in it’s place.

    So you could have the old one:
    “MyAssMy$1” and the new one:
    “$1MyAssMy” and it was not similar at all :)

    • @discount_door_garlic
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      312 hours ago

      thats a fun example and and all, but what situation does “MyAssMy$1” arise from? 😳

      • @NeoNachtwaechter
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        512 hours ago

        From the situation where you suddenly need to make up an example for a lemmy post.