Special Characters In Passwords
In this day and age of technology, we all need access to our protected data. In order to do that, you need a good password. What if you're not allowed to create a good password? Too often, I see web forms that try to be clever in that they require you to have a uppercase, lowercase and a number in order to make your password stronger and harder to guess. Then they turn around and deny you the use of special characters. That's like walking into a bar, and the minimum is 3 drinks and you think you're going to have a good time, until you find out they watered the beer down to >1.5% - Good job! Other instances, I see web forms that totally DENY you the use of anything except alphanumeric characters. I've never seen an instance of a web form that does this legitimately. The only excuse for this is because the developer who created the form didn't properly escape the data before printing it to the next stream. This is ridiculous! The best thing you can do for your user