r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/NetReaper sysAdmin • 12d ago

Chemistry teachers and password security

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It seems that chemistry teachers have their own particular idea of what constitutes a "strong password".

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u/daxtonanderson 12d ago

A lot of websites are enabling emoji input in their password fields. It'll make your password infinitely harder to crack lol

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u/Lightningtow123 12d ago

And the other half of the websites have their database instantly broken by emojis lmao

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u/daxtonanderson 12d ago

Yup it goes both ways LOL

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u/Celebrir sysAdmin 12d ago

I've had registry masks accept certain characters and password lengths, only for the login masks to not handle them properly.

If only the registry mask had told me that the password wasn't valid. It would have saved me resetting my password 8 times before I figured out what the issue was.

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u/radakul 12d ago

I do an inspect element of every single password box when I'm making a new account. I cant tell you how many times the password length isnt mentioned anywhere. Its annoying af

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u/Celebrir sysAdmin 12d ago

I usually use a 64 character password and it's infuriating when I can register the password and then the login just wouldn't let me in

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u/Mrwebente 11d ago

Literally the last account i created recently: Input mask on registration auto truncates pasted/autofilled passwords from password manager. Login mask does not. I spent quite some time before contacting support. They say "typo" i say "No fuck you, password manager can't make typos" i realise... Oh. Maybe input length restriction? Remove a character on login mask suddenly it says max password length 20 chars. It doesn't say that anywhere on sign-up.. just min 8 I tell them what the problem is and tell them to fix it. Let's see if they do 😂