Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
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Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
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Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#2Can anyone explain why this is? I've never heard a security reason for this.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#3My guess, some kind of harebrained master password scheme for support.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#4Can anyone explain why this is? I've never heard a security reason for this.
Guess 1: They append either one of those characters to the password to store some form of information.
Guess 2: The characters are column separators in some form of data store.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#5guessing... Touch tone phone keypads dont always show q and z. I suspect that some older JetBlue system allows you to use your password via a touch tone system (with a vastly reduced keyspace)
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#6Can anyone explain why this is? I've never heard a security reason for this.
On some older keypad layouts, Q and Z aren't associated with a number. It could be some misguided attempt at backwards compatibility.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#7Can anyone explain why this is? I've never heard a security reason for this.
Shit poor security? It almost sounds like they end up converting the stored password to digits, based on letters associated with numbers on a standard phone (originally 'Q' and 'Z' were omitted). I wonder if they consider 'ad4jmp' and '2ehkn7' different passwords. That would be an interesting test.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#8My guess is that this is just a rule to force people to read the rules.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#9They use Sabre (like others), and it's an archaic holdover from when phones didn't have Qs or Zs.
Re: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
#10Looks like it has to do with the venerable Sabre system (scroll to bottom):
http://kottke.org/12/06/the-worlds-worst-password-requiremen...