Timeline for Why did customer services say using symbols in a password is insecure?
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 22:11 | history | edited | dr jimbob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2016 at 22:27 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Smart quotes can bite someone if they're trying to keep track of passwords in a document produced by a word processor application that likes to convert the ASCII apostrophe and quote characters into the "smart quote" equivalents. Of course, they ought not to be using such applications for that purpose, but nevertheless they do. So I would not object to excluding them, as well as backquote. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | kasperd | I personally prefer using longer passwords chosen from a smaller alphabet. Anywhere I can get away with it, I stick to only alphanumeric characters in my passwords. Even if you went from the entire range of printable ASCII characters to only lower case letters, it just means you need a 40% longer password to have as many possible passwords. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 20:56 | history | answered | dr jimbob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |