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  • P PIEBALDconsult

    Gaaahhh!!! I recently registered on a website that doesn't accept upper-case letters in a username/email-address. :omg: So today I tried to log in -- all it does is tell me that the login failed. Over and over and over again. :wtf: Can't you at least do a freakin' ToLower on whatever the user entered?

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    When I registered on my online car insurance company it allowed me to insert special characters in the password. Comes the year later, I need to renew my insurance * they don't accept those characters anymore, * didn't bother to alert anyone, * didn't accept my fully working password, * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method), * they didn't have any method to create a new account without creating a new contract, which meant starting from the highest merit class available - basically incerasing 8 times the price of my insurance. X| X| X|

    GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

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    • P PIEBALDconsult

      Gaaahhh!!! I recently registered on a website that doesn't accept upper-case letters in a username/email-address. :omg: So today I tried to log in -- all it does is tell me that the login failed. Over and over and over again. :wtf: Can't you at least do a freakin' ToLower on whatever the user entered?

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      Herman T Instance
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      StringComparison.IgnoreOrdinalCase

      In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

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      • P PIEBALDconsult

        Gaaahhh!!! I recently registered on a website that doesn't accept upper-case letters in a username/email-address. :omg: So today I tried to log in -- all it does is tell me that the login failed. Over and over and over again. :wtf: Can't you at least do a freakin' ToLower on whatever the user entered?

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        Bernhard Hiller
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        If they don't accept UpperCase in username/email, that's weird but still not too bad. Imagine they do accept it, AND insist on case-sensitivity when you log-in... "Bernie" != "bernie" - which one did I use? E.g. with postgresql, string comparison is case-sensitive by default...

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        • D den2k88

          When I registered on my online car insurance company it allowed me to insert special characters in the password. Comes the year later, I need to renew my insurance * they don't accept those characters anymore, * didn't bother to alert anyone, * didn't accept my fully working password, * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method), * they didn't have any method to create a new account without creating a new contract, which meant starting from the highest merit class available - basically incerasing 8 times the price of my insurance. X| X| X|

          GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

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          Bernhard Hiller
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          den2k88 wrote:

          sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method),

          Unicode-encrypted? :-D

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            StringComparison.IgnoreOrdinalCase

            In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

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            Richard Deeming
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            digimanus wrote:

            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase

            FTFY.


            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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              digimanus wrote:

              StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase

              FTFY.


              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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              Herman T Instance
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              Thank you

              In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.

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              • P PIEBALDconsult

                Gaaahhh!!! I recently registered on a website that doesn't accept upper-case letters in a username/email-address. :omg: So today I tried to log in -- all it does is tell me that the login failed. Over and over and over again. :wtf: Can't you at least do a freakin' ToLower on whatever the user entered?

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                PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                upper-case letters in a username/email-address.

                There's your first problem. :-\ But yes, a simple problem to fix.

                There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                • D den2k88

                  When I registered on my online car insurance company it allowed me to insert special characters in the password. Comes the year later, I need to renew my insurance * they don't accept those characters anymore, * didn't bother to alert anyone, * didn't accept my fully working password, * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method), * they didn't have any method to create a new account without creating a new contract, which meant starting from the highest merit class available - basically incerasing 8 times the price of my insurance. X| X| X|

                  GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

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                  Tim Carmichael
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                  den2k88 wrote:

                  * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method),

                  So.. do they have fraud insurance to cover themselves when their system gets hacked?

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                  • T Tim Carmichael

                    den2k88 wrote:

                    * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method),

                    So.. do they have fraud insurance to cover themselves when their system gets hacked?

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                    den2k88
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                    I sincerely hope so. Better than that I hope someone hacks them and pays my insurance bill but that's not gonna happen. ;P

                    GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

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                    • D den2k88

                      When I registered on my online car insurance company it allowed me to insert special characters in the password. Comes the year later, I need to renew my insurance * they don't accept those characters anymore, * didn't bother to alert anyone, * didn't accept my fully working password, * the "forgot passowrd" button sent an e-mail with the registered password in clear-text (with all the implications on their storage method), * they didn't have any method to create a new account without creating a new contract, which meant starting from the highest merit class available - basically incerasing 8 times the price of my insurance. X| X| X|

                      GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

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                      Rob Grainger
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                      Name them and shame them.

                      "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                      • R Rob Grainger

                        Name them and shame them.

                        "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                        den2k88
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                        Well, if Lloyd was a Genius he would have an insurance company with a misspelled Alliance. Gosh this is almost CCC material.

                        GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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