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T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

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Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#41

Apparently to prevent paste. Their CheckEnter.js file has: function keyDown(a) { if (a.keyCode == 86) { a.preventDefault() } } And that's assigned to onkeydown... Funny enough, elsewhere in their code, they do explicitly check for Ctrl & V/C.

I keep hearing about a shortage of programmers. Perhaps if we didn't write pointless code, there would be enough.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#42

why would you want to stop paste? don't mobile devices have things like keypass? (i don't own a smartphone, but paste all passwords on my computers).

if you don't have something like mobile keepass(or you don't have a current password file, i don't think keepass for android can add passwords) or the app prevents you from pasting the password, entering a long complicated password can be difficult. Pasting helps improve the likelyhood of long complicated passwords.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#43

I hate when people disable pasting in password fields. Some of my passwords are 50 character random strings stored in 1password and sometimes I need to copy/paste and can not do it (ahem, icloud). I usually end up disabling javascript if the page still renders without javascript.

Assuming you're on Linux, you can just pipe the input into "xargs xdotool type". Thanks to the keyboard abstraction in X, no program will ever be able to tell that you didn't just type that on a keyboard.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#44
This might be a good place to complain about -ed out passwords on mobile phones. It makes it next to impossible to enter a password(yes the last letter not -ed out for a few seconds only helps a tiny bit). If I'm not copy-pasting from keepass I'm entering the password in the login field then cut/paste it.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#45

I hate when people disable pasting in password fields. Some of my passwords are 50 character random strings stored in 1password and sometimes I need to copy/paste and can not do it (ahem, icloud). I usually end up disabling javascript if the page still renders without javascript.

Assuming you're on Linux, you can just pipe the input into "xargs xdotool type". Thanks to the keyboard abstraction in X, no program will ever be able to tell that you didn't just type that on a keyboard.

Unfortunately, xdotool type is schizophrenic with multiple keyboard layouts

http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/issues/detail?id=13

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#46
post #14

why would you want to stop paste? don't mobile devices have things like keypass? (i don't own a smartphone, but paste all passwords on my computers).

PayPal does this too. I don't get it. (Other than PayPal are jerks anyway so this fits.)

On login or change?

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#47
post #6

Their entire site is a really bad example of ASP.NET development. As someone who knows the technology well, it can make great sites. It just rarely does. I like my T Mobile service but there's something odd with their backend systems and/or customer service. I logged in to disable their "WebGuard" service that seemed to be blocking pages at random. It required address and social security verification, but I couldn't…

>As someone who knows the technology well, it can make great sites Example?

NewEgg.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're on Linux, you can just pipe the input into "xargs xdotool type". Thanks to the keyboard abstraction in X, no program will ever be able to tell that you didn't just type that on a keyboard.

Unfortunately, xdotool type is schizophrenic with multiple keyboard layouts http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/issues/detail?id=13

An admittedly obscure corner case.

(Though I'm not defending the X keyboard API. Linux input is a nightmare. I especially like the hard-coded list of keys in the kernel, limiting the number of unique keys that any userspace application can address, even though it's perfectly possible to plug in 128 keyboards each with several hundred keys.)

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#49
I like to end my passwords with non-alphas like "!" Neither tmobile or at&t let me do this for whatever reason. Its incredible how telcos get away with everything from high pricing to shit web code. These are the mistakes of self-taught amateurs, not professionals.

Re: T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple does this, too. Not just on password change forms, but on login forms. Drives me nuts, as I use a password manager and my passwords are 24 characters of garbage. Edit: Apparently I can't reply to the next comment, but keepassx also has the feature that passwords are cleared from the clipboard after 30 seconds.

I ran into this same problem. Had to use the Chrome Web Inspector to get around it. I believe it's a part of PCI compliance, but plenty of sites accept credit cards without that nonsense so I'm not sure. GetGamesGo.com does the same thing.

Please, in the future, whenever talking about PCI compliance, cite chapter and verse. There's more than enough wild speculation running around about it, all sorts of myths are repeated and propagated.
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