Password is too weak…
It’s good to see providers beginning to rethink their password policies. But this from BT?
Password paranoia?
This was the rejected password:
Tfi]XoDS|?RQc|L1}Te(BvX>o
I cannot begin to imagine what a strong password would look like…
Categories: All, Security Issues
Same has been happening to me on Yahoo. I cant access my account. Keep getting password too weak even when i use random letters + numbers, +symbols. Just kinda confuse on Yahoo mail.
So did you resolve the problem? I am having the same problem with Yahoo.
Yahoo keeps rejecting perfectly good and strong passwords with the message “password is too weak.” How did you solve the problem?
Yes – see comment stamped ‘September 12, 2012 at 3:58 pm’ below.
#4, #5 make up your mind
. Soon You’ll say it’s six. Or seven.
I noticed that, too – so I changed it to the time-stamp. Seems like this theme automatically renumbers the comments.
I wondera, I am experiencing same now. I wonder what they actually
Was it because you pasted it and not typed it?
No. The post is slightly tongue in cheek, although exactly as it happened. My password was generated by a password manager. But if you look closely, you’ll see it includes a couple of vertical bars that are not specifically allowed by BT’s software. That, I suspect, is why it was rejected.
However, even without those vertical bars it would still have been rejected because mine is 20+ characters in length while BT allows only a maximum of 16 characters.
I know that some sites don’t allow pasting (such as HMRC, for example), but that wasn’t the problem in this instance.
I wondered if I was being unfair to BT, but then I decided that if their coders are too lazy or sloppy to write the correct error message, they deserve to be slagged off.
At least with this visible password limitations (charset, length) you know they won’t store it hashed
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