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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Dec 2015

    Always alarmed when software won't let me use spaces in a password. What other forms of incompetence are there that I can't see?

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      2. Michael Babich‏ @MichaelBabich 23 Dec 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Many sites still require while registering to provide username and not an email as login. Obviously, every username is taken.

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Dec 2015
        Replying to @MichaelBabich

        @MichaelBabich That happened too.

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      2. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 23 Dec 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Seen in the wild: Letters are mapped to digits; special characters are deleted; what remains of the password is truncated to 6 chars.

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Max Burke‏ @m18e 23 Dec 2015
        Replying to @cperciva

        @cperciva @paulg In other words, the state of online banking in Canada in 2015.

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      1. Will Charczuk‏ @willcharczuk 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg when email forms don’t let you use + in emails for spam filtering (ex: will+spam@foo.com)

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      1. Bilal Aijazi‏ @bmajz 23 Dec 2015
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        Bilal Aijazi Retweeted Harri

        @paulghttps://twitter.com/harribellthomas/status/651794474394361856 …

        Bilal Aijazi added,

        Harri @harribellthomas
        "Your password contains invalid characters." No, your startup contains incompetent engineers.
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      1. Víctor Adrián‏ @lobo_tuerto 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg Or those that ask you to include a number, but ignore all the special characters you have already provided...

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      1. Paul Walsh‏ @Paul__Walsh 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg Not permitted because you already used that password within the last 10 years.

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      1. Soheil‏ @soheil 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg tweeting about what characters you use in your password?

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      2. Dave Slutzkin‏ @daveslutzkin 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg A major bank in Australia won't let you start your password with a number. Why not?

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      1. Tim Offor‏ @timoffor 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg any number of major banks that don't allow non alphanumeric characters in theirs - madness!

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      2. Chris Lamprecht‏ @mthreat 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg Should trailing spaces be allowed in passwords?

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      1. Paul Homes‏ @PaulAtMetacoda 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg my favorite is the one where they truncate a long password and leave you guessing how many characters they chose.

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      1. Will Thomsen‏ @willthomsen 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg Chase bank passwords are case-insensitive. Not joking.

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      1. Brendon J. Wilson‏ @brendonjwilson 23 Dec 2015
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        @paulg That's your source of alarm? How about that we continue to use passwords? That's pretty alarming to me...

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      1. pobrecitoshame‏ @pobrecitoshame 26 Dec 2015
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        @paulg @hotelzululima #Incompetence and #Apathy are crackers and surveillers best friends. #UnAccountable means #UnControllable

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      1. jony‏ @martix512 25 Dec 2015
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        @paulg #FORSALE #FOR_SALE #limited_offer Check out licensed-12-software (value 824$) just for 100$ http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/262208502331?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=LIAn42 … via @eBay

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      1. Giuseppe Scrivano‏ @gscrivano 24 Dec 2015
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        @paulg "The password is too long" or get it in cleartext by email

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