<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>Try using a space in your password. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Can't. I automatically escape it at that _really_ breaks things :-D<br><br>stoopid windows code banger can't understand a backslash outside of a directory name.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><div>--</div><div>From my iP<span>hone</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
Geoffrey Myers</div></font></span></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div>This is just my opinion but....<br><br>When I need to use a secure login for a web site like, say, a utility company or a shopping site that stores my credit card, I like to test the security of their coding practices by trying to use a password that has a '.' and a '!' in it. When they password checker complains, I take that as a good sign their coders don't properly escape user input data and thus are probably crappy in other areas.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
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