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Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by zifnab06 »

Ambroos wrote: post #226
linker3000 wrote: post #132

A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…

Similarly, my Belgian ISP (Telenet) has WiFi home gateways that are configured by their web portal, and config is pushed by the ISP. I figured out that they only did validation on SSIDs client-side, so managed to get around that to put emoji's in my SSID. Which then proceeded to soft-brick the entire thing on config push. I'd have to log in to the web portal via another connection, change the SSID there, and then res…

The stereo in my 2013 GTI crashed hilariously if you tried to pair a Bluetooth device with anything in the name outisde of [a-zA-Z0-9]. I wish I'd have messed around with it some more before I sold it (it was a silly car to own for how little I drive)

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by skgoa »

linker3000 wrote: post #132

A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…

I had a similar issue when my bank introduced a new banking app. The web login page has different requirements for the password than the app. I.e. on either I can set my password to something that the other will not accept.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by skgoa »

monocasa wrote: post #217
tooop wrote: post #170

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Where i am from the ticket is issued to the vehicle owner, doesn't matter who was driving. On the plus side it means that you can get a photoradar ticket for driving 300km/h and not lose your licence, just pay the fine. P.S. If the driver must be recognized does it mean that motorcyclists are exempt from photoradar fines?

I thought that motorcycles already didn't really show up on the photoradar scanners. That's the way it is here, but I can totally see that being a jurisdiction by jurisdiction thing.

It really depends. The newer traffic control bridges we have on our highways take a picture from both the front and back.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by Dextro »

luc4sdreyer wrote: post #298
dajonker wrote: post #250

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Yes, this is terribly annoying, often there is a minimum length but no mention of maximum length. I see this on many, many websites...

What kind of range limits are you talking about? 30? 100?

I remember that Microsoft got stuck with a 16 character limit for a while thanks to hotmail.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by roelschroeven »

dmurray wrote: post #218
rebuilder wrote: post #168

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I've also heard a similar story of a Finnish man who got a ticket in the UK, and on closer inspection found his name on the ticket listed as Mr. Ajokortti Körkort. Thats "driver's licence", first in Finnish, then Swedish, and is written at the top of the driver's license card. That said, I find these stories a little hard to credit, since you'd expect police officers in the EU to be fairly familiar with the standard…

Irish driving licences didn't start to use the standard credit-card-sized EU format until a few years ago. They were paper booklets which had long since been phased out in the rest of Europe.

Here in Belgium new driving licenses are of the standard credit-card design (I don't know exactly since when), but most people still have the old folded paper design. Since the old licenses are still valid, and the new designs require renewal every 5 years which the old ones don't, there is no incentive for people to swap their old license for a new one.

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Post by zxcvbn4038 »

megaremote wrote: post #368
0xffff2 wrote: post #330

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Based on "traveler's checks", I'm going to guess at least a couple decades ago. Cashier probably called 911 because they thought GP was trying to commit fraud with "fake money".

I mean, in what world can you cash travelers cheques at a dairy queen?

Dairy Queen was a favorite from my childhood, I had moved away from Texas years earlier so I decided to indulge while visiting. These days I’m more into Sonic - the food is better, they have a greater variety of sweet treats, and I really like their iOS app.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by myfonj »

13of40 wrote: post #386
linker3000 wrote: post #132

A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…

> avoid backticks in passwords I learned that lesson a different way: When I had a Windows phone my email password had a backtick, and the only way to enter it on the phone was to long-press the apostrophe, pick backtick from the three or four apostrophe variants that appeared, and pray I didn't fat-finger it and enter the wrong character. In general, there are just some second class citizen characters you should alw…

There are regional keyboard layouts lacking backtick completely. (I would have to use alt+96 or switch keyboard from my default (and only) Czech QWERTZ layout to type `, if I hadn't more convenient AutoHotkey shortcut in effect.)

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by foldr »

et2o wrote: post #372
foldr wrote: post #234

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I had a cab driver in New York who was unable to take me to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Possibly didn't want to take you into Brooklyn. The Manhattan side isn't really walkable.

I was already on the Brooklyn side. But the issue was literally that he had no idea what the Brooklyn Bridge was, not the precise drop-off location. (We just wanted to look around Dumbo for a bit.)

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by Faark »

inopinatus wrote: post #421
cgriswald wrote: post #236

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Many, many websites will happily accept passwords of $X characters and then hash only $(X-Y) characters on registration, but try to hash all $X characters on login, so of course the hashes don’t match. And at no point do they tell you the maximum number of characters.

Square Enix's account management on the PS4 allowed me to set a password with a space on the end, but their website strips spaces from the password field when you sign in. Fun fact: it's actually really easy to submit a string with a space on the end when entered via a PS4 controller.

Trimming spaces is the one evil that is kind of necessary. Way to many text selection tools select trailing spaces. Firefox and Chrome both do when selecting words. Got a mail with a reset password and want to copy it over? Yeah, good chance the space is copied as well. On a few occasions even ended up in my password manager. Please, just apply password rules everywhere consistently.
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