Timeline for Why did customer services say using symbols in a password is insecure?
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | Pete Kirkham | @iProgram If your password manager doesn't let you store passwords of any characters and of any length, it's a pretty poor password manager, and that limitation has nothing to do with the point I was making. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 17:58 | comment | added | iProgram | Only because I can't have a long password with no symbols. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | Pete Kirkham | @iProgram then it's your password manager which is making the password less secure. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:27 | comment | added | iProgram | With my password manager, I can filter the symbol out, however it makes the password shorter, therefor less secure. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:09 | comment | added | Pete Kirkham | @iProgram most people don't use password managers, and most password managers allow you to change the password or generate passwords without symbols. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:06 | comment | added | iProgram | But when you use a password manager like I do (and I'm sure many others), it slows you down that way. This is because you either have to remove the symbol your self, or you need to change the password type, which makes it less secure because the password is shorter. | |
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 12:35 | history | answered | Pete Kirkham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |