Opinion: Why no special characters in passwords? Are you a target?
I regularly enter passwords into websites, and am told after I’ve entered a new password, that I can’t use any special characters.
Why exactly?
If I see a site that won’t deal with special characters properly, it immediately makes me think there’s some pretty poor coding going on under the covers. Very likely, the developers haven’t thought through how the parsing of requests, etc. should be handled.
It’s not just special characters either. Requiring short passwords is another red flag.
2020-01-21