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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.
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.
And why prevent paste? Just ran into this recently on paypal when I wanted to change my password. I generated one in passpack and tried to paste it in, no can do. Ridiculous.
It worked, but I couldn't log in to that email for a few days, until I understood, that I've changed my password to
Wait till this guy figures out that T-Mobile also stores his password in plain text.
I wonder if it's a bad idea to disclaim that you store passwords in plain text (when you actually use PBKDF2 or something) to trick users into making more secure passwords.
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.
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To say nothing about right click - paste... unless they're doing the 1999 thing and blocking right click too (and if they are, hopefully it's with a 1999-tastic alert("Right click not allowed!");).
Or click field. Go to the menu option Edit -> Paste. Let's see how they are going to dodge that with Javascript?
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.
And why prevent paste? Just ran into this recently on paypal when I wanted to change my password. I generated one in passpack and tried to paste it in, no can do. Ridiculous.