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* Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> [2005-03-22 10:03 -0500]: > My "favorite" is my login for the Apple Developer's site, where the > password has credible minimum complexity requirements (it must have > letters, numbers, and mixed case; it can't be based on a dictionary > word; etc) and you have to change the thing every few months. A while back I tried to create a web account for Verizon. They set some complexity minimums--at least six characters, at least one digit--so, given that, and because it was for my phone account and involves at least semi-access to financial information, I tried to put a decent password in. It failed. Apparently, they have complexity *maximums*, too; only alphanumeric characters are allowed. Hate. As a separate hate, they also didn't like my putting a plus sign in my email address. But that's an already well-established hate. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REALThere's stuff above here
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